A team of archaeologists, restorers and engineers of the Supreme Council of Antiquities managed to restore and erect the obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, lying near the Sacred Lake in the Karnak temples.

She undertook grand building projects, including two pairs of imposing obelisks at Karnak and at her mortuary temple, Djeser-Djeseru. Upon Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C., Thutmose III at last ...

The solar alignment at the God Amun sanctum at Karnak, one of the country's most popular tourist attractions, coincided with the illumination of his sanctum at the Hatshepsut's temple near the Nile ...