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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. Built for the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut, who died in 1458 BC, the temple is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el-Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings 🕌📸🍀 Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari was established in 1961 by Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski, who also became its first director. Since then, archaeologists, conservators, architects, and other specialists have been working under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw (PCMA UW), and in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, on documenting and reconstructing the temple. Polish specialists are responsible for the study and restoration of the three levels of the temple.[6] During work on the Upper Terrace, graves of members of the royal families from the Twenty-second to the Twenty-sixth Dynasties were discovered. The necropolis was created after the terrace had been destroyed by an earthquake. The archaeological and conservation expedition reconstructed almost the entire Upper Terrace, including nine statues of Hatshepsut as Osiris, the so-called Osiriacs. The temple is gradually being opened for tourists. Since 2000, they can visit the reconstructed Upper Festival Courtyard, the so-called Coronation Portico, and the platform of the Upper Ramp. In 2015 and 2017, the Solar Cult Complex and the Main Sanctuary of Amun-Re, respectively, were also opened to the public. The Polish team consists of specialists from many scientific institutions: the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw. #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #hatshepsut #hatshepsuttemple #hatshepsuttempleluxor #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COm5eFmNqK_/?igshid=1mtwue0ny3ye0

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adambulenda21 · 3 years

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 The main and axis of the temple is set to an azimuth of about 116½° and is aligned to the winter solstice sunrise, which in our modern era occurs around 21 or 22 December each year. The sunlight penetrates through to the rear wall of the chapel, before moving to the right to highlight one of the Osiris statues that stand on either side of the doorway to the second chamber. A further subtlety to this main alignment is created by a light-box, which shows a block of sunlight that slowly moves from the central axis of the temple to first illuminate the god Amun-Ra to then shining on the kneeling figure of Thutmose III before finally illuminating the Nile god Hapi. Additionally, because of the heightened angle of the sun, around 41 days on either side of the solstice, sunlight is able to penetrate via a secondary light-box through to the innermost chamber. This inner-most chapel was renewed and expanded in the Ptolemaic era and has cult references to Imhotep, the builder of the Pyramid of Djoser, and Amenhotep, son of Hapu, the overseer of the works of Amenhotep III. The solsticial alignment could be related to the fusion of the Egyptian constellation of the ram with the sun, originating Amun-Ra, heavenly father of Hatshepsut. Nine months later, at the autumn equinox, the Beautiful Feast of Opet would mark the pharaonic birth. As for the alignment of the 1st of February, it would be a marker of the date on which Amun-Ra pronounced the oracle that enthroned Hatshepsut as a female pharaoh. #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COkX2OrN3jf/?igshid=sdrt7o65rm17

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adambulenda21 · 3 years

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 Hatshepsut's temple is considered the closest Egypt came to classical architecture. Representative of New Kingdom funerary architecture, it both aggrandizes the pharaoh and includes sanctuaries to honor the gods relevant to her afterlife. This marks a turning point in the architecture of ancient Egypt, which forsook the megalithic geometry of the Old Kingdom for a temple which allowed for active worship, requiring the presence of participants to create the majesty. The linear axiality of Hatshepsut's temple is mirrored in the later New Kingdom temples. The architecture of the original temple has been considerably altered as a result of misguided reconstruction in the early twentieth century AD. #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #hatshepsut #hatshepsuttemple #hatshepsuttempleluxor #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COkOMfENHWw/?igshid=18b7ipt1syqc1

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 The site was mentioned by travelers already in the first half of the 18th century. At first, only the Coptic sanctuary was recorded (in 1737). Almost a hundred years later, researchers accepted the name Deir el-Bahari, introduced by John Gardner Wilkinson. The first excavations in the temple were carried out by Auguste Mariette, the founder of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Further work was conducted by a British expedition organized by the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF), directed by Édouard Naville, and an American one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, headed by Herbert E. Winlock. #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut #hatshepsut_temple (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COkNkWgNvlL/?igshid=1oi8itcw2duil

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 The site was mentioned by travelers already in the first half of the 18th century. At first, only the Coptic sanctuary was recorded (in 1737). Almost a hundred years later, researchers accepted the name Deir el-Bahari, introduced by John Gardner Wilkinson. The first excavations in the temple were carried out by Auguste Mariette, the founder of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Further work was conducted by a British expedition organized by the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF), directed by Édouard Naville, and an American one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, headed by Herbert E. Winlock. #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut #hatshepsut_temple (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COkNkWgNvlL/?igshid=1oi8itcw2duil

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adambulenda21 · 3 years

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COjgMRrtM8z/?igshid=14egfyjonkil7

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser-Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. 🕌📸🍀 #Travel #TravelPics #Photography #TravelPhoto #Podroze #Wycieczka #Zdjecia #egypt #luxor #visitegypt #visitegypt🇪🇬 #visitluxor #visitthebes #spring #Sun #Fun #Follow #FollowMe #FollowThem #Walk #Walking #themortuarytempleofqueenhatshepsut #themortuarytempleofhatshepsut (w: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COjgMRrtM8z/?igshid=14qet2mgs2ziv

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