Hatshepsut Essay

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Egyptians used to believe that this life that we are all living now is preceding the afterlife, where all the greatest wonders and richness in the world will be giving to you. All of the great things will only come to them if their names and legacy are kept in the carnal world, that’s the reason pharaohs constructed huge temples, so that their names will be kept on their citizens’ mind. Hatshepsut was not different from them; she always strived for big things in her life and her death. On the traditional political system of the ancient Egypt, women such as Hatshepsut couldn’t and wouldn’t be considered a pharaohs, “In the history of Egypt during the dynastic period (3000 to 332 B.C.) there were only two or three
The three levels were connected with two wide ramps in the center, the front of the temple had a “one hundred and twenty foot wide causeway lined with trees and sphinx led from the valley to the entrance pylons. Unfortunately, no trace remains of the pylons and the two obelisk that would have stood in front of them are no longer in place.” (Hill, “Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple”). On the first level, a garden with exotic plants, originated from Punt, were planted symbolizing the trading expedition to it. The evidence of this garden no longer exist. Behind the garden there was a collunade with square pillars. The only decoration that remains in this part of the temple is of Tuthmosis III dancing before god Min. One of the ramps runs through the middle of the temple from the courtyard to the second level with two lions statues on the entrance of the ramp. The second and the third level is where the main rooms were located. That were specific chapels for the gods that look after the land and the pharaohs on the afterlife, those include Hathor, goddess of the feminine, Anubis, god of the dead and last but not least Amun, god of the