Deir El-Bahari, Luxor, Egypt. Stock Photo

The mortuary temple of Queen Hapshepsut, one of the few female pharaohs, at Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt. Deir el-Bahari (the northern monastery) occupies a scenic site in the western of the Luxor area, across the river from the Great Themple of Karnak. The cliffs of the Western Gebel make a worthy background to the funerary monument of Hatshepsut, the Deir el-Bahari (Northern Monastery).