Monday, May 30, 2011

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

The design and implementation of the temple's construction engineer "die" Queen's Counsel and one close to it. It belongs to a modest family from "Armant," but his effort became the first President to receive the royal family, and the President to receive the god "Amun", and is responsible for all of the construction, but this has achieved the greatest professional successes in the history of ancient Egypt.
The roof was destroyed with regret, but Offineth three remain, sticking to the balconies, a consecutive rise from each other degrees. And lead the group in the division to the balconies and sequential series of consecutive surfaces separate breed in harmony and homogeneity fully with the natural shelf of the mountain.
And generally fill the windows of balconies Bwaik meshes simplicity in full conformity with the greatness of what topped the rock-like pipe organ (musical instrument). The lead to this temple by the rams, and remain the entrance and backyard trees remained parts of the stumps in place today.
And is in the middle of a causeway between the three balconies, and every balcony is located towards the twenty-two columns and there, behind the second courtyard terrace leads to the cabin, "Anubis," god of the dead in the right side, and another to "Hathor," Lady of the cemetery on the left side. And then ends the temple mihrab, or Holy of Holies, carved in the heart of the rock.


Queen Hatshepsut

And Queen "Hatshepsut" is sent ships to the country, "Pont" (Somalia) in order to back loaded with incense and perfume .. And "Hatshepsut" is the fifth of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which also belongs to the King, "Tutankhamun". The daughter of "Thutmose I" and the wife of "Thutmose II" has received a sentence with "Thutmose III," which was the son of her husband from one of the Run, and was at the same time her daughter's husband, and remained until her death in 1484 BC, holding the reins of government, was the ruling of jus cogens over her life, and kept the "Thutmose III" to rule, did not have the recipe does not like the verdict.
Although she was female, they represented themselves to statues in the form of a man who has no breasts was flat, with a false beard. After she died liberation "of Tuthmosis III" from the tutelage of heavy, and I love to take revenge on them piquant build this temple, and attributed to himself, he smashed her name and most of the images carved and statues, and a place name and titles in many quarters.

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