Deir el-Bahari, New Valley, Egypt
Dayr al-Baḥrī, also spelled Deir el-Bahri, Egyptian archaeological site in the necropolis of Thebes. It is made up of a bay in the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile River east of the Valley of the Kings. Its name refers to a monastery built there in the 7th century CE.
Of the three ancient Egyptian structures on the site, one, the funerary temple of King Mentuhotep II, has lost much of its superstructure. The second, the terraced temple of Queen Hatshepsut, was uncovered (1894–96) beneath the monastery ruins and subsequently underwent partial restoration. A fuller restoration of the third terrace, sanctuary, and retaining wall was started in 1968 by a Polish archaeological mission, which also found a third temple, built by Thutmose III about 1435 BCE, above and between the two earlier temples.
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