INCREDIBLE LUXOR - Queen Hutsheput temple

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I visited Luxor in November 2004. Went to Hurgada, a red sea resort for scuba diving. Luxor is about 4 hours bus journey from there. Due to terrorist fear - all the tour buses are clumpled together and taken as a convoy with full military security to Luxor. The convoys will stretch more than a mile as so many tourists are visiting Luxor.

Incredible Luxor

Nowadays Luxor is a small, sleepy and rather dirty town. However, it was the major capital and cultural center during the Pharo times - that is 2700 years BC. All the pharo kings were competing with each other in the archetectural acheivements. They built temples and graves - all of them way advanced for their times. They built everything BIG AND GIANT SIZE. An amazing acheivement when they did not have the luxury of machines and cranes.

Queen Hutsheput temple

Queen Hutsheput was the step mother of a boy king. She userped power from the boy king and ruled for many years. She went on to assume masculine features and wore men cloths.

After her death, the boy king who had grownup now assumed power. He hated his stepmom so much he went on to destroy or defigure queen's monuments and statues. So many of the Hutsheput temple statues and frescoes are altered and obliterated.

Just follow the images -

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