Hatshepsut's Divine Birth in the Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut .. Part ( 5 )

We now return to the north, or Birth Colonnade, the reliefs on the rear wall of which represent the state fiction by which Hatshepsut was regarded as the actual child of Amûn by the Queen Ahmôse, the wife of Tuthmosis I .

The second courtyard of Hatshepsut's Temple and the shrine of Anubis .. ( Part 4 )

We now rise to the middle terrace, and have before us a picture of great beauty and interest . In front of us is the colonnade which stands in front of the retaining wall of the next ( upper ) terrace .

The entrance and the first courtyard of Hatshepsut's Temple .. ( Part 3 )

The original approach to the temple was by an avenue of sphinxes leading up from the plain . This led up to the first portal, now almost completely destroyed .