Queen Hatshepsut Tomb
Near Beni Hassan Hatshepsut dedicated two temples to the fierce lion goddess Pakhet.
Queen hatshepsut tomb. Hatshepsut died in 1458 BCE. Queen Hatshepsut was around 50 when she died suffering from diabetes and wearing black and red nail polish. After her fathers death 12-year-old Hatshepsut became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother Thutmose.
The mortuary temple is. Designed by Senenmut Hatshepsuts steward and architect this mortuary temple closely resembles the classical Greek architecture of 1000 years later. And was buried in the Valley of the Kings.
The Temple of Hatshepsut is not only a memorial temple that honors Queen Hatshepsut it is also one of the greatest Egyptian architectural achievements. Ostracon found from the dump below Senenmuts tombs chapel SAE 71. Hatshepsut Tomb Hatshepsut had her tomb dug in the Valley of the Kings KV 20 by her vizier and High Priest of Amun Hapuseneb.
While this tomb did not date back to Hatshepsuts reign it was a tomb where many royal mummies had been reburied after their tombs had been ransacked during the 21st and 22nd Dynasties. Tomb TT353 is located at the site of Deir el-Bahri close to the temple of Hatshepsut which Senenmut is said to have created. However in June this year a mummy from the Valley of the Kings Tomb KV60 was publicly identified as the lost queen.
Hatshepsuts vast mortuary temple was considered one of the most impressive architectural achievements in the ancient world. Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut c147872-1458 BCE dates from the New Kingdom. While Thutmose I II and III were all discovered at DB320 Hatshepsut was nowhere to be found.
She had previously had a tomb cut for herself as queen regnant under Tuthmosis II its entrance 220 ft 72 m up a 350-ft 91-m cliff face in a remote valley west of the Valley of the Kings. Built for the Eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Hatshepsut it is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings. She began to upgrade the tomb of her father Thutmose I adding a new chamber.