Archaeologists uncover new discoveries at the Queen Hatshepsut Temple
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the head of the joint archaeological mission affiliated with the Zahi Hawass Center for Archaeology and Heritage has announced several new archaeological discoveries in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Across three years of research and scientific excavations which began in September 2022, Hawass confirmed that the mission has been able to achieve a number of important archaeological discoveries in the area located at the beginning of the ascending path to the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri.
The mission uncovered a part of the foundations of the valley temple that was located at the edge of the valley.
This is the main entrance to the queen’s mortuary temple, known as “Djeser-Djeseru,” widely considered one of the most beautiful Pharaonic temples.
Hawass indicated that the mission found a large number of inscriptions from the valley temple, which are among the rarest and most beautiful examples of the sculptures made during the time of Queen Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
There are only a few similar examples in Egyptian museums, such as those in the Luxor and Metropolitan museums.