Deir el-Bahari, Egypt - 30 November 2010; The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru (Holy of Holies), is located beneath the cliffs

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Deir el-Bahari, Egypt - 30 November 2010; The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru (Holy of Holies), is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra, and is considered one of the incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt. Here we see its colonnade of columns on the facade of the main building

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