Hatshepsut: The Temple of Egypt's Female Pharaoh

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt sits a temple considered to be one of the great architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. The memorial temple of Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh who came to the throne of Egypt in 1478 BC sits nestled beneath a dramatic amphitheatre of limestone cliffs on the edge of the Valley of the Kings. Hatshepsut lived as long before Jesus was born as Henry the 8th lived after and presided over rich and powerful Egypt. She established trade routes and her reign was marked by peace and prosperity. But, at her death her step-son Thutmose III did all he could to erase her from the history books, replacing her image with his own, burying her statues and scratching her name from the temple walls.

In this episode director of the West Bank Dr Bahaa Gaber takes Dan around her temple and fills him in on what kind of leader Hatshepsut really was.

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1:18.0	Because this is the side where the rate of crop is is the value of the kings.
1:22.0	And this value that I mean now right next to the value of the kings.
1:25.0	And looking at a gigantic amphitheater of limestone cliffs.
1:29.0	Beyond them is the value of the kings.
1:31.0	Underneath is the most perfectly proportioned temple in the world.
1:35.0	The greatest temple in Egypt I think.
1:37.0	And that is the temple of Hatchip suit a pharaoh.
1:40.0	A pharaoh who lived as long before Jesus was born as Henry VIII lived after him.
1:45.0	1500 BC a pho that ruled for decades, presiding over a powerful Egypt.
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