Still others exist of people reaching their tree houses by ladders. My family of … Skilled and unskilled Egyptian workers built the palaces, temples, pyramids, monuments, and raised the obelisks as paid workers. The Cult of Amun had grown so powerful by Akhenaten’s time that it rivaled the throne – a problem faced by a number of kings throughout Egypt’s history – and abolishing that cult along with all the others was the quickest and most effective way of restoring balance and wealth to the monarchy. This Temple Honors the Egyptian Queen Who Ruled as King Hatshepsut's temple is one of the world’s most striking architectural masterpieces, but … Hatshepsut’s eternal existence by thus honoring her), I visited her funerary temple during a research and docu-mentary tour of Egypt in January 2001, made possible by a CART grant. Senenmut modeled it carefully on that of Mentuhotep II but took every aspect of the earlier building and made it larger, longer, and more elaborate. It is built of the same material as the natural mountainous. [7]This marks a turning point in the architecture of Ancient Egypt, which forsook the megalithic geometry of the Old Kingdom for a temple which allowed for active worship, requiring the presence of participants to create the majesty. In c. 1457 BCE Thutmose III led his armies to victory at the Battle of Megiddo, a campaign possibly anticipated and prepared for by Hatshepsut, and afterwards her name disappears from the historical record. Hatshepsut temple is about 17 miles northwest of Luxor on the western side of the great capital of Egypt in the new Kingdom Thebes.It was designed by Hatshepsut’s chancellor Senenmut in 1479 BC and took 15 years to construct. This is a must see temple. Although he is routinely hailed as a visionary for this by monotheists, his action was most likely motivated far more by politics than theology. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut-New Kingdom-Deir el-Bahri, Egypt. Hatshepsut’s temple is considered the closest Egypt came to Classical architecture.