Rock temple of Deir el Bahri.

From the Middle Kingdom from there were three main places of worship in Thebes, Elephantine on the upper Nile and in Memphis. Was worshiped there Gods triads, was handed out by the chief god a wife and a son. So it was in Thebes: Amun, the sun god and the goddess Mut and Khonsu All-Father, the moon-god; in Elephantine Khnum was the Allbildner, the others were Hekat and Amakt, in Memphis was worshiped Hapi, the sun, the Nile and earth god with the sacred bull Apis him, the war goddess Sekhmet and their son Nefertum, the god of death. These and other deities were worshiped now in a myriad of temples that attract as stone witnesses of a bygone time both our religion, as cultural and art historical interest. The mightiest abundance of temples offered the old 100 - engined Thebes, in which we recognize here the hewn in the rock temple of Deir el Bahri, the mighty Queen Hatshepsut create. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)