Hatshepsut made many magnificent structures. She had a great interest in building and art. One of these is her mortuary temple. This was built in her honor, while she was alive, to tell her story and hold her sole when she died. The temple also held her mummy after she died. The temple was built in the cliffs of Deir el-Bahri. She had two obelisks transported to her that were carved in another city, in her honor. They are made of rose granite, and are position between the fourth and fifth pylons of the temple, the are ment as a monument of lasting and dignity to the queen. There were more then 20 little storage chapels in her temple, and each one had an alter, and sealed doors, and on the wall space behind each door (area conceled by door) was a carved scene or inscription. Her name is inscribed on her “great seal” of her tomb. The stautues in her mortuary temple were destroyed by Thutmosis III’s followers. Some of the texts in Hatshepsut’s temple revealed political value!

of the Amon Cult at Karnak. She was also referred to as a male Pharaoh throughout these texts. Her temple is very important because it tells of everything that happened in her life, everything she did. Though Tuthmosis III did try to destroy everything in it, he failed to do it enough,

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