the western wall of hatshepsut's red chapel sanctuary at karnak temples: archaeological study

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Hatshepsut's chapel is considered one of her most important architectural works in the Karnak Temple, which was built from regular blocks of quartz stone.

Queen Hatshepsut built her sacred chapel, often somewhere near the offerings rooms that she built it in the central area of the middle kingdom courtyard in the Karnak temple, and it is believed that she began building this chapel before the seventeenth year of her reign, as the doors of the chapel were covered with the queen's inscriptions Which dating back to the seventeenth year of her reign, and some of her Cartouches still remain undamaged.

Queen Hatshepsut finished building this chapel in the seventeenth year of her reign, and it is believed that this chapel remained in its place until the forty-second year of the reign of King Thutmose III.

The researcher will use “the Karnak project”, as it is the latest publishing of the chapel, and the symbol “KIU” is an abbreviation on the website for the location of the scene or the text.

The research has been divided into an introduction and two chapters, which are as follows:
The first chapter: Architectural Description of Hatshepsut's red chapel.

The second chapter: Explanation of scenes and translation of texts on the western wall of the red chapel.

This is followed by the conclusion of the research, which included the most important new results reached by the researcher, then the list of references and the catalogue.