A joint archaeological mission of the Zahi Hawass Foundation, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities, revealed part of the foundations of the Valley Temple, which was located on the outskirts of the valley and is the main entrance gate to the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor.
The head of the mission, Dr. Zahi Hawass, announced that The former Minister of Antiquities, who has been leading excavations at the site since 2022, announced today, Wednesday, the discovery of about 1,000 inscribed pieces on the outskirts of this site. The temple.
Hawass said that 1,500 colorful decorative pieces were found, and the mission also found at the site a unique stone plaque made of limestone bearing in relief the name and title of Queen Hatshepsut’s architect, Engineer Senmut, who supervised the construction of the temple.< /p>
He added that the tomb of the so-called “Jahuti Mes”, the supervisor of the palace of Queen “Tetishri”, was found. The grandmother of King Ahmose, the liberator of Egypt from the Hyksos, and the mother of his father, King Seqenenre, and the tomb dates to the ninth year of the reign of King Ahmose I (1550-1525 BC), that is, a century before the rule of Hatshepsut.
He explained that the discovered tomb contains a simple dug grave. In the rock, it is located at the end of a domed mud-brick church with red wall paintings painted on a layer of white mortar.
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