Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari
1,479 BCE* · Event
Female pharaoh Hatshepsut commissions her terraced mortuary temple - masterpiece of New Kingdom architecture.
On these timelines: Master, Ancient Egypt
Around 1479 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation rises (1600 BCE)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Eruption of Thera (1600 BCE)
- Oracle bone script in use (1250 BCE)