The site of the Temple of Hatshepsut is a place where colors merge in one of the most graceful views one can ever see over the Nile: the yellow of the desert, the green of the valley and the blue of the Nile all join together in one of the most impressive portrays. With its terraces, the temple itself is one of the most distinctive photos included in many tourist brochures about Egypt. While part of the temple was excavated in the rocks, the other was built in terrace. With the mountain and the temple perfectly united, the latter grants the viewer marvelously charming and harmonic scenes.
The temple was almost completely destructed since the reign of Thutmosis III and Akhenaten till the eighteenth century. In 1920, the temple was cleaned.
The architect, who designed the temple and was b...Read More