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    Deir el-Bahari or Dayr al-Bahri (Arabic: الدير البحري, romanized: al-Dayr al-Baḥrī, lit. 'the Monastery of the North', Coptic: ⲡⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲁⲡⲁ ⲫⲟⲓⲃⲁⲙⲙⲱⲛ, lit...
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    referred to as DB320), is an Ancient Egyptian tomb located next to Deir el-Bahari, in the Theban Necropolis, opposite the modern city of Luxor. It contains...
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    the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Her tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex...
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    sedimentary rock, which form the cliffs in the valley and the nearby Deir el-Bahari, interspersed with soft layers of marl. The sedimentary rock was originally...
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    (ẖnmt nfr-ḥḏt). The title "King's Mother" (mwt nswt) was found on the Deir el-Bahari coffin. Ahhotep I was the daughter of Queen Tetisheri and Pharaoh Senakhtenre...
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    Mubarak replaced interior minister General Hassan Al Alfi with General Habib el-Adly. The Swiss Federal Police "later determined that Osama bin Laden had...
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    by the entrance of the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif. The necropolis is located near the Valley of...
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    Speos Artemidos and most famously, the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut died probably in Year 22 of Thutmose III. Towards the end...
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    came from Deir el-Bahari and the fourth one is thought to come from somewhere in Thebes. Large statue from the Mentuhotep Temple in Deir el-Bahari (UM E.534+)...
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    Abd el-Qurna (Arabic: شيخ عبدالقرنة) is located on the West Bank at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is part of the archaeological area of Deir el-Bahari, and...
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  • temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari is built. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. c. 1473 BC–1458 BC—Hatshepsut as sphinx, from Deir el-Bahari was made. Eighteenth...
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    located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'. El-Assasif contains burials from the 18th, 22nd...
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    of ancient 21st dynasty (c. 1070–945 BCE) Egyptian mummies found at Deir el-Bahari in 1891. It was excavated by French Egyptologists Eugène Grebaut and...
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  • Bas-relief carvings in the ancient Egyptian temple of Deir el-Bahari depict events in the life of the pharaoh or monarch Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty...
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    regional leaders. Mentuhotep II was buried at the Theban necropolis of Deir el-Bahari. His mortuary temple was one of Mentuhotep II's most ambitious building-projects...
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  • The temple of Thutmose III at Deir el-Bahari is a temple in the central part of the Deir el-Bahari Valley, built on a rocky platform and thus dominating...
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    is depicted with her parents Thutmose I and Ahmose in Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahari mortuary temple, then vanishes. It is assumed that she died young, with...
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    Artystyczne i Filmowe. "Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 28 August 2020. "Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved...
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    for his body is a mummy known as "Unknown Man E", discovered in the Deir el-Bahari cache in 1881. This mummy is unusual as it was found wrapped in a sheep...
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  • Pharaoh Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose Nefertari. His mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache (DB320) and is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Aidan Dodson...
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    "There can be no doubt that el-Kurru was the burial place of the ancestors of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.": 112  The early el-Kurru burials resemble Nubian...
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    permanent cult center for her in the necropolis at Deir el-Bahari. The nearby village of Deir el-Medina, home to the tomb workers of the necropolis during...
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  • excavations of the IFAO, she participated in an expedition to the site of Deir el-Bahari, in collaboration with Janusz Karkowski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean...
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    in the Royal Cache of Mummies at Deir el-Bahari (Theban Necropolis). Thutmose II's mummy was discovered in the Deir el-Bahri cache, revealed in 1881. He...
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    Amenhotep I. She died fairly young and was buried in tomb TT358 in Deir el-Bahari. Ahmose-Meritamun was the royal daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari...
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    objects came from this source, including pieces from Amarna, Bubastis and Deir el-Bahari. Other organisations and individuals also excavated and donated objects...
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    from the Deir el-Bahari cache was considered to belong to a queen called Ahhotep II. During the 1970s, it was noted that the Deir el-Bahari coffin bears...
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    inscriptions, in Wadi Hammamat no. 114 (ca. 2000 BC) as hnw and in his Deir el-Bahari tomb as hnnw. It is unclear whether the two inscriptions refer to the...
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    also the official who evacuated the mummies of the Royal Cache from Deir el-Bahari in 1881 without recording the plan of the tomb. This has fuelled speculation...
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  • of the double granary. He is shown in the queen's mortuary temple at Deir el Bahari in a scene depicting the transport of two obelisks. and was therefore...
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