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Sunday 30 September 2012
Friday 28 September 2012
The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut - West Bank, Luxor, Egypt
Deir el-Babri is the Arabic name for the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, the only woman ever to reign over ancient Egypt. Set amid a vast natural amphitheatre in the Theban Hills, the temple rises in imposing terraces, the shadowed verticals of its colonnades drawing power from the massive crags overhead.
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Thursday 27 September 2012
The Colossi of Memnon - West Bank, Luxor, Egypt.
Looming nearly 18 metres above the fields, the two enthroned Colossi of Memnon originally fronted the mortuary temple of Amenophis II, once the largest complex on The Theban Necropolis, West Bank, Luxor, Egypt.
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