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    Hatshepsut's Temple was built in terraces rising up to the cliffs at Deir el Bahri and contained collonaded shrines. The chief exploits of Queen Hatshepsut's reign were depicted in carvings along the porticoes. A portrait of Nefertiti was carved in relief at the temple in the realistic style used during the reign of her husband Akhenaton, revealing her beauty as implied by her name, which means "the Beautiful One is come".

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    Hatshepsut's Temple was built in terraces rising up to the cliffs at Deir el Bahri and contained collonaded shrines. The chief exploits of Queen Hatshepsut's reign were depicted in carvings along the porticoes. A portrait of Nefertiti was carved in relief at the temple in the realistic style used during the reign of her husband Akhenaton, revealing her beauty as implied by her name, which means "the Beautiful One is come".

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    HATSHEPSUT'S TEMPLE, A Complex Oj Col

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    Hatshepsut's Temple was built in terraces rising up to the cliffs at Deir el Bahri and contained collonaded shrines. The chief exploits of Queen Hatshepsut's reign were depicted in carvings along the porticoes. A portrait of Nefertiti was carved in relief at the temple in the realistic style used during the reign of her husband Akhenaton, revealing her beauty as implied by her name, which means "the Beautiful One is come".

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    HATSHEPSUT'S TEMPLE, a complex oj col-

    onnaded shrines, rises in terraces to the


    cliffs at Dcir el Bahri. The chief ex-
    ploits of the Queen's reign were de-
    picted in carvings along the porticoes.

    NEFERTXTL's PORTRAIT, carved ill the


    realistic style used during the reign of
    her husband Akhenaton, reveals the
    loveliness implied by her name: Nefer-
    titi means "the Beautiful One is come".

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