Reconstructed Temple of the Night Sun in Mortuary of Queen Hatshepsut opens to the public

More than 1.2 million revolutions of the Earth around the sun since her death, Queen Hatepshut has not been eradicated from memory by her ancient successors. Far from it. Still today, nearly 3,500 years after she died, scholars are working to remember this monarch of ancient Egypt by rebuilding and refurbishing her vast temple in the Theban necropolis near Luxor.

In February 2015 officials opened the part of her temple upon which work was most recently completed, the temple of the Night Sun, where ancient priests invoked the famous solar deities of ancient Egypt, including Ra and Amun-Ra.