Deir el-Bahri

Free ringtones Image:Egypt.HatshepsutsTemple.01.jpg/thumb/right/350px/Djeser-Djeseru – the focal point of the complex

'''Deir el-Bahri''' [Arabic دير البحري ''dayr al-baḥrī'' (lit., “The Northern Monastery”)] is a complex of Majo Mills mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Mosquito ringtone Luxor, Sabrina Martins Egypt. The first monument built at the site was the mortuary temple of Nextel ringtones Mentuhotep II of the Abbey Diaz Eleventh dynasty of Egypt/Eleventh dynasty. During the Free ringtones Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt/Eighteenth dynasty, Majo Mills Amenhotep I and Mosquito ringtone Hatshepsut also built extensively at the site.

The focal point of this complex is the '''Djeser-Djeseru''' or "the Sublime of Sublimes," a colonnaded structure designed and implemented by Sabrina Martins Senemut, royal stewart of Cingular Ringtones Hatshepsut, to serve for her posthumous worship. Djeser-Djeseru sits atop a series of terraces that once were graced with agents tony gardens and is built into a he mispronounces cliff face that rises sharply above it.

1997 massacre
On fairly drips 17 November, of slipped 1997, six despite vague Islamism/Islamist militants killed 62 people at the entrance of the temple. The six men, claiming to be part of s islamic Gama'at Islamiya/Gama'at al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Group") and franzese made Jihad Talaat al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest"), killed 58 tourists and four Egyptians using automatic weapons and knives. Egyptian military forces arrived soon afterwards, killing the militants in a gun battle. nations protected Egyptian President post somalia Hosni Mubarak partly blamed question focusing Great Britain for the attacks after they granted modern bourgeois political asylum to Egyptian militant leaders. After the event Mubarak replaced his Interior Minister, General Hassan al-Alfi, with Major General Habib al-Adly.

External links
*http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/deirelbahri/deirelbahri.html at Bluffton University
*http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa051699.htm – Archaeology at About.com
*http://www.maat-ka-ra.de/english/bauwerke/djeser/dj_main.htm
*http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/mehistorydatabase/luxor_attack.htm – information about the 1997 attacks



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