The site has some nice photos, including the title photo on the page linked here. Generally, the tomb of Hatshepsut is shown in photos, which are taken and captioned without regard to the Middle Kingdom precursor on the site. Obviously the older structure is in worse condition mostly due to age, but Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh who (in the anachronistic views common today) was suppressed by the patriarchal dominant males of her time, and that's the reason Mentuhotep's monument is generally not shown. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
1 posted on
07/27/2004 11:56:45 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
2 posted on
10/25/2004 4:14:52 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
3 posted on
01/27/2006 10:47:17 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ptarmigan
sort of related (Mentuhotep III) and newer topic:
Archeologists Find Ancient Ship Remains
(cargo carriers between Pharaonic Egypt and Punt)
AP on Yahoo | 1/27/06 | AP
Posted on 01/27/2006 6:14:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1566605/posts
4 posted on
01/28/2006 8:16:57 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
5 posted on
03/26/2006 9:02:51 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
BBC:
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11th Dynasty -- After around 2190 BC, Egypt fell to pieces, the various provinces eventually coalescing around the cities of Thebes and Herakleopolis. The resulting civil war was won by the Thebans of the 11th Dynasty, led by King Mentuhotep II. He kept the capital in the south, and there he built the tomb shown above, at a site now called Deir el-Bahari. It was a terraced temple of an unusual form, perhaps once topped by a pyramid. The burial chamber was at the end of a long tunnel beginning in the courtyard at the rear of the temple. |
6 posted on
06/29/2007 9:42:46 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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01/21/2008 12:04:29 PM PST by
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8 posted on
01/21/2008 12:05:06 PM PST by
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