Nile Cruise — The Colors of Hatshepsut

Unlike most of the Ancient Egyptian temples I’ve shown you so far, there’s something a bit different here at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, one of Egypt’s few female pharaohs. Here you’ll find many of the reliefs painted, and the paint doesn’t even look 3,400+ years old. Indeed, they don’t look a day over 3,000 (just kidding). So, today I’m going to present images of these impressive painted reliefs. Below is our old friend Horus, whom we’ve seen many times in this series, as well as a plethora of images depicting the Egyptian goddess Uraeus (“Rearing Cobra):

Above Uraeus you’ll discover a rich blue ceiling containing many gold stars:

Don’t pin me down on this next one, but I believe this may be a depiction of Egyptian goddess Hathor, whom we’ve met before:

And once again we have Horus in his half-falcon/half-human form:

This next bird is not Horus. You’ll notice it looks more like a vulture than a falcon, and that’s precisely what it is. Behold the Egyptian goddess Nekhbet, protector of Upper Egypt:

I shall leave you today with one more painted relief from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut:

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