An Egyptian Figure with the Temple of Hatshepsut below

The partly rock-cut, partly free-standing mortuary temple of Hatshepsut is tucked into the Theban mountain close to the Valley of the Kings, on the opposite bank of the Nile to Luxor. Ellis travelled to Egypt between 1896 and 1898, just after the excavation of the temple. Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh and assumed the dress and manner of a man during her twenty year rule and was the first woman in Egypt ever to reign as pharaoh.