Deir el-Bahri

Hatshepsut is one of the most mysterious figures in the history of ancient Egypt. Much is known about his reign as king, however, many questions remain unanswered. Questions such as why the end of the reign of his successor, Thutmose III, 40 years after his death, and suddenly it seems to initiate a campaign to clear his name and memory of the lists of kings.
In any case, Hatshepsut left a legacy of elegant architectural design and sculpture. The temple was built in the area of good talk in the Deir el-Bahari, and respond to the beautiful monument to his rule.
It extends directly across the Nile from the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, Deir el-Bahari on the rock provides a natural focal point of the West Bank and a place for churches to welcome many of the rulers. Of natural rock amphitheater, deep in the Gulf of slopes, and was the most important religious centers, and was buried in the Theban area. The remains of temples of Mentuhotep II Nebhepetre, Hatshepsut and King Tuthmosis III, in particular graves dating back to the covenants until the Ptolemaic era can be found here. Graves, most important, especially in the Deir el-Bahari Meketre, which contains many painted wooden funerary models from the Kingdom of East and even a jar jars for the first time in human head and die, the tomb, Hatshepsut's guardian and adviser to .. Daughter
A family's grave shaft 11 on the south side contains a quantity of forty royal mummies in the Valley of the Kings. Bodies had been buried there by the family of priests 21st, presumably to protect against attempts to steal the other. Cache of the mummy of King Seqenenre Taa II, Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, II, III, Seti I and Ramses II, III and IX, I, II and Pinudgjem Siamun. Later, a cache of 153 mummies buried in the priests were also found in the tomb here.
The first monarch to build here is the ruler of the Middle Kingdom Mentuhotep Nebhepetre, the church, which has become a model for other similar structures at a later time, and the largest funerary temple of Hatshepsut.
The Temple of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre
Nebhepetre Mentuhotep was the first ruler of the dynasty of 11 in the Middle Kingdom, and are often included in the first or second, king of the dynasty of modern menus. Kings Inyotef good of the family came to power in Egypt once again unified after the First Intermediate Period. Inyotef Kings have left almost no trace of such temples associated with her worship. Nebhepetre continuation of this practice of his predecessors to combine religious structures with the tomb.
Temple is called Brother Süt Nebhepetre, "are a wonderful places Nehepetre. This is the first to be built in much of the Gulf of Deir el-Bahari, just south of the graves of their ancestors. Temple was discovered in the 1860s and was excavated after the turn of the century. He continued to further study .
The temple is a smaller, not as well-preserved temple of Hatshepsut, built at a later date. On the contrary, from the morgue after the temples that also functioned as a tomb, and differ from those in multi-levels, and develop a plan of construction. The processional bridge leading from the valley of a small temple to a big tree-lined below, the Court made deep shaft. This is mine, led to unfinished rooms believed to have originally seen as the king's tomb. Howard Carter found the statue of the king involved there.

The front part of the structure made of limestone, was dedicated to Montu-Re, the god Amun local good before. The rear of the structure is made of sandstone, and was a center of worship for the king.
On both sides of the ramp leading to the pillars of the upper terrace, and the upper terrace, was a series of columns on three sides. Octagon columns surrounding the structure of the great Square, and the funeral chapel. The box also contains six churches and cemeteries shaft to their wives and their families.
Inside the temple, consists of a courtyard, beneath the Baptist to reduce the entrance of the tomb of King in the rock. At the level of the balcony, and a hall of columns in the sanctuary for worship owner. Statue of King was in a niche carved into the rock.
The Temple of Tuthmosis III
Thutmose III, Hatshepsut's successor, built the temple complex here. Discovered in 1961 when the restoration and cleaning work between the monuments Mentuhotep and Hatshepsut was going on. The resort, perched on a rock, and an increase in the slopes, built to Amun, and the Chapel of Hathor. Perhaps the structure is designed to accommodate a boat of Amun during the Feast of the valley, and therefore have a place of the Temple of Hatshepsut.
After landslide damage the temple at the end of Dynasty 20, which was abandoned as it seems. He then became a quarry, and later, the tomb of the Coptic monastery nearby.