The Temple of Hatshepsut
The Temple of Hatshepsut was built in Ancient Egypt in 1473 BC, and is a significant part of Egypt's history. The temple is important to the Egyptian’s worldview because it was dedicated to the second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. It’s also important to their worldview because it demonstrated the fact that Hatshepsut ruled for 20 years and is considered one of the most successful pharaohs. The temple also allows the citizens of Egypt the ability to remember her and her successes as a pharaoh. Lastly it represents how important pharaoh’s are to the country of Egypt.
The Temple of Hatshepsut was a key point in Ancient Egypt’s history because it was dedicated to the country's most successful leader. The structure
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was made of limestone instead of sandstone due to its design and decorations. Inside the temple there are walls of hieroglyphics and lots of different carvings engraved into the stone walls. Like I said before the temple was constructed in 1473 BC and was finished in 1458 BC taking roughly 15 years to build. The temple of course was built by Queen Hatshepsut and many Egyptian slaves.
At this time in history the battle of ten kings was happening. The battle of ten kings was a battle taking place because of their religious book (Rigveda).In conclusion The Temple of Hatshepsut is an important part of Egyptian worldview and history.
The Temple of Hatshepsut is still an important piece of Egyptian architecture today because it helps the citizens today remember their country's history. The temple is also a very popular tour spot when travelling to Egypt. Although the temple has tourists that come the number of them has dropped ever since the terrorist attack there in 1997. However last year Egypt had 14.7 million tourists last year making 11 billion in revenue. In conclusion the amount of tourism in Egypt has definitely decreased since many issues with Egyptian rulers, and multiple terrorist attacks.
Like I said before this monument is an important part of Egyptian history because it dedicates itself to the pharaoh Hatshepsut, and allows the Egyptians to remember their past. This temple teaches people about Egypt past, present, and future by the walls of hieroglyphics, older architecture and teaching them about their longest running pharaoh Hatshepsut. The Egyptians thought very highly of their pharaohs because they were considered gods on earth. Lastly most people today consider slavery as a cruel thing but in Egypt it was considered a common practice in their culture. At this time the slaves in Egypt thought of slavery as an honor to be building all these
monuments. The Temple of Hatshepsut is still to this day an important part of the Egyptian way of life. It represents the Egyptian history and how they lived so long ago. The temple also gives tourists and visitors an in depth explanation of the Egyptian way of life. In conclusion the Temple of Hatshepsut is only one building but is filled with many years of Egyptian history.
Hatshepsut, declared herself king during the reign of her stepson and nephew, Thutmose III. She adopted the full titulary of a pharaoh, and since this was traditionally a man’s role, she wore the nemes-headcloth, the shendyt-kilt and a fake beard as part of the ceremonial attire of the Egyptian king. This is portrayed in her life-size statue “White Hatshepsut” at the MET.
Before Hatshepsut, there were other woman who attempted to rule over Egypt. Every time a woman came to power, there was some sort of problem that was left for them to solve. Unlike Hatshepsut, the other woman did not have any confidence to name themselves pharaoh and they did not grow up in the royal family like Hatshepsut did. In paragraph 13, it states, “A few women had tried to rule Egypt before, but never would search valid claim to the throne,” and, “These women had not ruled long or well and neither had had the audacity to proclaim herself pharaoh.” These quotes explain that Hatshepsut was recognized for taking power at a good time and not stepping
Hatshepsut stands apart for her historical legacy as opposed to Cleopatra, “Egypt’s Cleopatra looms large more for her romantic exploits than her historical legacy. One Egyptian queen stands apart, however: Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt for some two decades at the beginning of the fifteenth century B.C. A strong and effective pharaoh, she oversaw a cultural renaissance that influenced the arts in Egypt for more than a millennium” (Roehrig and Dreyfus
The success of the king’s rule became based on the approval or rejection of the god Amun-Re. Thus, Amun was used as a platform for political propaganda, with pharaohs such as Hatshepsut and Thutmose III using the God to legitimise their claims to the throne, as evidenced for Thutmose III on the Temple of Tiraqa: ‘I have achieved this according to that which was ordained for me by my father, Amun-Re’. Concepts of the divine oracles and the divine birth of the king became a theme for pharaohs of the 19th dynasty, and afforded them heightened legitimacy. Hatshepsut’s divine birth scenes on her mortuary temple in Deir el Bahri depicts her claim to be the daughter of Amun, manipulating the public to believe in her divine birth. Additionally, Thutmose IV’s ‘dream stela” erected between the paws of the sphinx, which claimed that he had been granted the kingship because he had freed the monument according to instruction from gods. Some historians have dismissed these building projects, which consolidated the importance and authority of the state cult of Amun-Re as mere political propaganda. However, it is more the point that they reflect a significant change in the Egyptian political landscape, as it became dependent on and connected to the sustained pre-eminence of the cult of Amun-Re and the religious unity that eventuated. Therefore, the amun
The sites touched by Thutmose I and II were expanded in Upper Egypt. Hatshepsut built for Horus of Buhen, which was a temple of a temple common in the mid 18th dynasty. Hatshepsut lined the temple with drawings of her and Thutmose III. Although later, when Thutmose III rose to power, he replaced those drawings with those of just him and his father and grandfather. However, parts of the Buhen temples that were moved to the Khartoum Museum, contains scenes of Hatshepsut’s coronation and veneration of her father, Thutmose I. There are no records of any 18th dynasty kings building before Hatshepsut. Hatshepsut also inscribed a lengthy tale on Speos Artemidos, saying that she was the first person to start to restore temples in the area of Memphis since the Hyksos destroyed the area. She claimed to rebuild temples at Hermopolis and at Cusae. This work was claimed to be overlooked by one of her nomarch named, Djehuty. Djehuty was a general under king Thutmose III, and then a nomarch to Hatshepsut. Djehuty had the titles “king's scribe”, “overseer of troops” and “overseer of the northern countries”. Hatshepsut gave the most attention to Thebes. She had a huge focus on the Temple of Karnak, and worked on restoring and expanding on the once great temple. Djehuty had a large role in this project as well. Illustrated on the walls of this temple, was the Queen’s expedition to
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After Hatshepsut 's death, Thutmose III destroyed or defaced her monuments, erased many of her inscriptions and constructed a wall around her obelisks. Thutmose III did that to take the credit for all of Queen Hatshepsut’s work in 22 year period that she reigned. It was unlikely, for women to be king and Thutmose III took all her work as his own work. Though past Egyptologists held that it was merely the queen’s ambition that drove her, more recent scholars have suggested that the move might have been due to a political crisis, such as a threat from another branch of the royal family, and that Hatshepsut may have been acting to save the throne for her stepson. Hatshepsut was only the third woman to become pharaoh in 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, and the first to attain the full power of the position. Cleopatra, who also exercised such power, would rule some 14 centuries later. There have been rumors and stories about Thutmose III wanted to overrule Queen Hatshepsut reign. It was his reign actually, but Thutmose III was a child and could not rule Egypt. Thutmose I and Ahmose rulers of Egypt, and was the mother and father of Hatshepsut. As people talked back then Queen Hatshepsut was the first female to become Egypt’s king. She ruled for over 22 years of reign in peace. She was married to Thutmose II, and had
The Women who would be king is a book about Hatshepsut’s rise to power in ancient Egypt. The author, Kara Cooney is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and is chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA. She also is an associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. Cooney when writing the book choose to “forgo any long-winded analysis of architectural history, reliefs, statuary, text, and genealogy, instead focusing solely on Hatshepsut’s narrative.”(pg. xii Author’s Note) Cooney takes more of a biographical approach when writing this book. In no way is this book supposed to be a perfect biography or story of Hatshepsut, due to the fact that there is so little information about her. Cooney even says that many of her Egyptological training rules had to be broken in order to write the book containing Hatshepsut’s ambitions, intentions, and disappointments.
...). Hatshepsut did not stop flying after she took office, and with that flight she took on people she did not know she would have too. She took on the citizens of Egypt in proving a woman was fit for the job, took on her own stepson, and took on keeping her legacy known for the entire world. For all those battles throughout her journey, Hatshepsut stayed strong so that she could help the country she loved. Hatshepsut may not be the most famous Pharaoh of Egypt, she sure was important for the legacy of Egyptian history.
“The pharaoh of ancient Egypt is normally described as the typical example of a divine ruler” (J. Ray, Hatshepsut, Vol 44, Issue 5, 1994) The ancient Egyptian world has seen hundreds of pharaohs; some excelled and some didn’t. Many of the pharaohs were men, only few females succeeded in gaining such great power, yet some did... specifically Hatshepsut. Few pharaohs of the 18Th Dynasty have aroused as much controversy as Hatshepsut. Hatshepsut was the sixth pharaoh of the New Kingdom and set up co-regency with her nephew and stepson, Thutmose III. (J. Lawless, Hatshepsut, a Personal Study, 2010) Hatshepsut created many junctions in history through politics, building programmes and military. This makes her so recognised in modern day studies, though almost all evidence of her existence has been partially or completely destroyed. Due to this many theories have been created about the standard of her reign.
This was the beginning of ?The New Kingdom,? characterized by god-like pharaohs who left immense temples and fortresses that still stand today. Until this time, the 12th Dynasty had represented Egypt?s ...
Her leadership however proved to be prosperous and have led to major development prompting the nation’s flourishing .Wu Zetian, transformed the operations of china in a positive direction. She discovered the best people who could help her run the government. She reduced the country’s army to a manageable size and eliminated the aristocratic military men and replaced them with scholars. Citizens who wanted government positions were allowed to take necessary exam for employment. Hatshepsut, on the other hand launched renovating programs. She constructed building projects especially around Thebes. She renovated her father’s hall temple designing a building nearly 100 feet tall and adding a chapel. Her greatest achievement was the enormous memorial temple at Deir el-Bahri. (Chaveau 2000)
In the book “The Temple of Hatshepsut”, it shows most of the paintings remaining from her tomb. Most of the paintings were the only story remained from conquests she had when she ruled. “On the south side was a text citing Hatshepsut’s victories against the Nubians and next to this four register showing land and water processions leading up to dedication by the queen to the god Amen-Ra” (Bryan,
Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt during the 18th dynasty, was one of a small handful of female pharaohs. Despite her many achievements, her reign is most remembered for the fact that she was a woman. Her unique story has been a source for dispute among scholars, which has led to a number of conflicting views. The small amount of Hatshepsut’s life that has been documented does not allow us to see the more intimate details of her life. Historians have a broad range of opinions on her, but one thing is certain: her reign provided Egypt with a period of peace and prosperity after 100 years of foreign rule.
I. MAIN POINT: Thanks to the Ancient Egyptians, Egypt’s revenue increase by $13 billion every year due to the thousands of people who come and visit this historic monument.