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XPLORALYA: "EGYPT THE LAND OF KINGS"

XPLORALYA: “EGIPTO, LA TIERRA DE LOS REYES” Therese Tawile Secretary General FIJET – LEBANON Travel Writer, Prensa Especializada Egypt is connecting Africa, Asia and Europe through the Mediterranean Sea.  Egipto conecta África, Asia y Europa a través del Mar Mediterráneo. Dating back thousands of years the land of Egypt have witnessed the succession of civilizations, the migration of people…

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Mortuary Temple of female pharaoh Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.

EGYPT FROM ABOVE (2020) — (1.01) Egypt's Ancient Empire

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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut: A Masterpiece of Ancient African Architecture

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, known as Djeser-Djeseru which means “Holy of Holies,” stands as a remarkable tribute to the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut during the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. This architectural masterpiece is nestled opposite the city of Luxor, flaunting its grandeur and significance in the history of African architecture. As you approach the temple, your eyes are…

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HATSHEPSUT TEMPLE

MORTUARY TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT

Djeser-Djeseru, Deir el-Bahari

The temple was built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. It is one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian sites which has thousands of tourists visiting it each year. Hatshepsut’s tomb (KV20) lies inside and it was constructed during year 7 (or 12) of her rule. 

            The temple has suffered through time, after Hatshepsut’s death, Egyptian rulers attempted to erase her name and face; thankfully, most of the references to her on her temple remain intact. Akhenaten ordered the images of Egyptian gods, including Amun to be erased - however his son Tutankhamun and those after him had these damages repaired. There was an earthquake which also harmed the temple during the Intermediate Period. During 6-8th centuries the image of Jesus Christ was painted over reliefs, the last graffiti is dated back to 1223. The temple became popular after a British traveller in 1737 visited the site, excavations wasn’t conducted until the 19th century.

            On 17 November 1997, an Islamic terrorist attack took place at the temple. Tourists were targeted, and 62 people were killed and mutilated. At 8:30-9am, the terrorists killed tourists and four Egyptians (including two armed guards). The tourists were trapped inside the temple, when the attack took place and they left a leaflet behind which read, ‘no tourists in Egypt’. The youngest victim was a child aged 5 from England, Shaunnah Turner. Only 26 people survived the attack. Afterwards the terrorists hijacked a bus and ran into Egyptian authorities and a shootout took place, one was injured and the rest fled into the hills where their lifeless bodies were found inside a cave (after taking their own lives). The victims were from Switzerland, Japan, England, Germany, Egypt, Colombia, Bulgaria and France. The perpetrators were from al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian Islamic group, who was an anti-government force.

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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Medinet Habu, and Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III

Three quite different temples on the West Bank of Luxor, all close to the Valley of the Kings, visited with a driver in the course of one afternoon along with the Valley of the Queens. The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is unique among ancient Egyptian temples for its striking design, and location at the base of the cliffs of Deir el-Bahri. A 1km causeway runs through the centre up three…

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Hathoric capital from the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut.

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Eagle sculpture of the ancient Egyptian god Horus in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut.

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Sphinx of Hatshepsut New Kingdom. Dynasty 18. Ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Granite. H: 164 cm (64 9/16 in.); L: 343 cm (135 1/16 in.); Wt: 6758.6 kg (14900 lb.).

This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 131.

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“The Fourth Way” (Other versions of Sphinx. 1. Cairo Museum, 2. Karnak Temple, 3. Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, 4. Karnak Temple (sphinx with ram head)

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Mortuary temple of female pharaoh Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. EGYPT FROM ABOVE (2020) — (1.01) Egypt's Ancient Empire

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There was once a land so rich and mysterious that it was hailed as a paradise by ancient pharaohs, yet today its exact location remains one of history's tantalizing enigmas.

This is the ancient land of Punt, often referred to as 'God's Land' by the Egyptians. Famed for its wealth in gold, incense, and exotic wildlife, Punt was the center of a bustling trade network thousands of years ago.

However, despite its once-celebrated status, it mysteriously vanished from historical records, leaving academics and adventurers seeking to rediscover its lost splendor.

The knowledge of Punt and its history is primarily derived from ancient Egyptian sources, as they were the most prolific record-keepers of their interactions with this mysterious land.

The most vivid and informative of these records are the temple reliefs found in Deir el-Bahri, part of the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

These reliefs depict the famous expedition to Punt commissioned by Hatshepsut around 1490 BCE, providing detailed images of the Puntite people, their houses on stilts, and the goods brought back to Egypt, including gold, ebony, myrrh, and living incense trees.

There was once a land so rich and mysterious that it was hailed as a paradise by ancient pharaohs This is the ancient land of Punt, often referred to as 'God's Land' by the Egyptians. Famed for its wealth in gold, incense, and exotic wildlife, Punt was the center of a bustling trade network thousands of years ago.

This shift could have been exacerbated by the rise of other trading powers in the region, which offered similar or more accessible commodities.

The economic decline, as a result of these shifting trade dynamics, could have led to a gradual fading of Punt from the prominent position it once held.

Additionally, there is speculation that internal societal changes within Punt itself, such as political upheaval or social unrest, might have contributed to its decline.

The lack of direct historical records from Punt makes it challenging to ascertain the nature of its political and social structures, but like many civilizations, it is conceivable that internal factors played a role in its eventual disappearance.

Some scholars also consider the possibility that the decline of the Egyptian Empire, which was a major trading partner of Punt, could have had a significant impact.

As Egypt's power and wealth waned, its ability to undertake expansive trading expeditions like those to Punt would have diminished, thereby reducing one of Punt's key economic lifelines

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I found this pylon particularly interesting because (in the middle band), Khons is shown with a goddess standing behind him, in the position usually reserved for a gods consort. Her headdress is unusual: a shrine, with a rearing cobra deity, surrounded by clumps of vegetation and flowers. However, I'm almost certain it's Hathor since she is shown, in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple, with the same headdress, and it is also her headdress on several examples of sistra handles. This identification is reinforced by the band above, which shows the king making offerings to Hathor, with her regular headdress, and her son, Ihy, wearing the hemhem crown.

I found this interesting since I hadn't really come across an official consort for Khons. Although all the gods are pretty fluid, I tend to associate Hathor with Horus (she's shown as both his consort and, at times, his mum, because…yeah…Egyptian gods 🤷‍♀️). Of course, Khons himself sometimes appears in a similar role to Horus - he's the moon to Horus' sun, and he is sometimes associated with the king (Horus's) placenta. In such a way, he is like a nocturnal, more chthonic, twin to Horus' solar form. That he is shown with Hathor as a consort shouldn't really surprise me. I just couldn't recall seeing them depicted in this way anywhere else.

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Ancient Egyptian jar (calcite, filled with cedar resin), bearing the cartouche of the 18th Dynasty female pharaoh Hatshepsut (r. ca. 1479-1458 BCE). Found near Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari; now in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London. Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.

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THE GREAT WA-SETIANS & KINGS TOMBS OF WASET (Theban Tombs)

The Wasetians, Known to the Greeks, and modern Egyptians as Thebans (not to be confused with Greek Thebans) originated in the southernmost regions of Kemet, known as Ta-Shemau "the Land of Reeds”. Waset was the main city of the fourth Upper Kemetic nome and was the capital of Kemet for long periods during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras.

In antiquity Waset was known as a prominent city and royal house whose residents were dedicated to the worship of Amun. He was chief of the Wa-Setian Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu. Amun’s primordial birthplace is located in Nubia at the holy mountain of Gebel Barkal. Waset served as a testimony not only to Kemetic life but also to the pinnacle of Hapi (Nile) Valley civilization. The Greeks would refer to the city as Diospolis Magna ('The Great City of the Gods'). The Greek Poet Homer once wrote about the majesty of Waset, labeling it a place where “heaps of precious ingots gleam.”

Over the centuries the Wa-Setian Kings from the south battled for control over Lower Kemet with invading forces from the near east. The reunification of the nation under Mentuhotep II ushered in a new sense of security throughout the country and established Kemet’s Middle Kingdom, an era that was to become a golden age for artistic and literary creation and a truly revolutionary period in regard to religion and royal ideology.

But during the reign of Amenemhat IV, a local ruler in Lower Kemet of foreign origin became more and more powerful. It is during this reign that the frequent expeditions into the Sinai came to a stop, probably because the expeditions had to go via the Delta. Towards the end of the reign of Nefrusobek, this foreign ruler was able to found his own dynasty, the 14th, which, ruling from the city of Avaris, controlled the eastern Delta, and perhaps all of Lower Kemet.

For a time Waset was a wealthy city under the rule of the Kemetic Empire but was later sacked by Assyrians, Persians, Romans, and later by the Arabs. Their destruction is illustrated in the Wa-Setian (Theban) Tombs list, as most of the statues and steles of these Southern Kings and Queens have been erased from history. It’s hard to believe that anything could survive several generations of destruction, but Waset has. The Wasetian Tombs known today as the Theban tombs were for the most part destroyed and over the years have been overshadowed by the Valley of the Kings. Remanence of the temples and tombs still remain as well as the Temple of Amun at Waset (Karnak), the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, and mortuary temples of Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut.

"King of Upper Kemet…Beautiful is the Ka-Soul of Ra who appears in Waset"

"I have not spoken angrily or arrogantly. I have not cursed anyone in thought, word or deeds." ~35th & 36th Principals of Ma'at