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 | | According to them Hatshepsut was a usurper who, when her husband Thutmosis II died, seized his throne, claimed the Pharaoh's divine attributes and grimly dung to power until her step-son, Thutmosis III, reaching manhood, dramatically wherever possible destroyed all references to her and her regime. |
 | | Hatshepsut's temple is centered in the shallow amphitheater of the cliffs in such a way mat it gives coherence and integrity to thena rural phenomenon of the escarpment - with the sunlight falling across the columned terraces exactly as it falls across the vertical crags of the bluff. |
 | | Sadly the figure of Hatshepsut herself is missing from all of this - or rather, it is there, but as a ghost, a shadow, a haunting trace of an outline, identified only by the cartouche that originally enclosed her name and now usually surrounds the name of her father or her husband. |
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