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, found in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Dayr al-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt. It is appropriate that her statue was placed in the building, because the temple was intended as the elaborate tomb of Queen Hatshepsut (an 18th-dynasty queen of Egypt), and Hathor was, among many other things, the divine guardian of the resting places of the dead.', copy:'(Image © Derek P Redfearn/Getty Images)'});)
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Greek name of an ancient city (Niut-Amen) in Upper Egypt, on the Nile. Probably founded under the first dynasty, it was the centre of the worship of Amen, and the Egyptian capital under the New Kingdom from about 1550 BC. Temple ruins survive near the villages of Karnak and Luxor, and in the nearby Valley of the Kings are buried the 18th to 20th dynasty kings, including Tutankhamen and Amenhotep III.
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