INSIDE HATSHEPSUT'S TEMPLE: ANUBIS SHRINE, STAR CEILINGS & SACRED CHAMBERS

Explore the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, from its grand terraces and colonnades to its painted chapels, Anubis shrine, offering scenes, star-covered ceilings, and sacred inner chambers. In this slideshow video, we journey through one of ancient Egypt’s most breathtaking monuments: the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt. Built for Queen Hatshepsut, one of Egypt’s most powerful female pharaohs, this temple was designed for worship, offerings, ceremonies, and the preservation of her royal and divine legacy. Photos 1–32 take us from the temple’s dramatic exterior façade into its decorated interior spaces, where painted reliefs, hieroglyphs, sacred symbols, Osiride statues, Anubis chapel scenes, offering tables, dark stone doorways, and star-patterned ceilings reveal the temple’s connection to kingship, divine protection, ritual worship, and the afterlife. This visual journey shows how architecture, color, inscriptions, and sacred imagery worked together to create one of the most powerful ritual environments of ancient Egypt. Watch, listen, and learn with Megalithic Alignments.