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You can't miss this temple if you go to the West Bank of Luxor. This funerary temple was constructed for Maatkare Hatshepsut (1504 BC - 1458 BC), who was the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. She was the first woman to take the title of Pharaoh. The focal point of the temple was the Djeser-Djeseru or "the Sublime of Sublimes", a colonnaded structure of perfect harmony nearly one thousand years before the Parthenon. Djeser-Djeseru sits atop a series of terraces that once were graced with gardens. After her death, many of her monuments were defaced or destroyed. You can see this at the temple as many of the images of where Hatshepsut was are scratched out. The traditional belief among historians is that her son, Thutmose III, was responsible because he was jealous. Talk about a bitter son! Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. After the death of her father in 1492 BC she married her half-brother Thutmose II and assumed the title of Great Royal Wife. Thutmose II ruled for only a few years, during which it is believed Hatshepsut exerted tremendous influence. Thutmose II had only two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir, Thutmose III, by a lesser wife named Isis before his death. As Thutmose III's aunt and stepmother, Hatshepsut was selected to be regent until the boy king came of age. At first it seemed that Hatshepsut was patterning herself after the powerful female regents of Egypt's then recent history, but she had herself crowned Pharaoh which was an exclusively male title at this point in Egyptian history. Over time all depictions of her only showed her in a masculine form. Leave a Comment Directions: On the West Bank of the Nile in between the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings.
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