<P> The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djeser - Djeseru (Ancient Egyptian: ḏsr ḏsrw "Holy of Holies"), is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt . Built for the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut, it is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el - Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings . This mortuary temple is dedicated to Amun and Hatshepsut and is situated next to the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, which served both as an inspiration and later, a quarry . It is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt ." </P> <P> The Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw is responsible for the study and restoration of the three levels of the temple . As of early 1995, the first two levels were almost complete, and the top level was still under reconstruction . </P> <P>. Hatshepsut's chancellor, royal architect Senenmut oversaw the construction of the temple . Although the adjacent, earlier mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II was used as a model, the two structures are nevertheless significantly different in many ways . Hatshepsut's temple employs a lengthy, colonnaded terrace that deviates from the centralised structure of Mentuhotep's model--an anomaly that may be caused by the decentralized location of her burial chamber . There are three layered terraces reaching 29.5 metres (97 ft) tall . Each story is articulated by a double colonnade of square piers, with the exception of the northwest corner of the central terrace, which employs proto - Doric columns to house the chapel . These terraces are connected by long ramps which were once surrounded by gardens with foreign plants including frankincense and myrrh trees . The layering of Hatshepsut's temple corresponds with the classical Theban form, employing pylons, courts, hypostyle, sun court, chapel and sanctuary . </P> <P> The relief sculpture within Hatshepsut's temple recites the tale of the divine birth of a female pharaoh--the first of its kind . The text and pictorial cycle also tell of an expedition to the Land of Punt, an exotic country on the Red Sea coast . While the statues and ornamentation have since been stolen or destroyed, the temple once was home to two statues of Osiris, a sphinx avenue as well as many sculptures of the Queen in different attitudes--standing, sitting, or kneeling . Many of these portraits were destroyed at the order of her stepson Thutmose III after her death . </P>

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