Monastery of the North

What: A group of Tombs and Mortuary Temples, including:

• The Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II
• The Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut
• The Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Thutmose III
• Tomb TT320: used as a Royal Cache for 40 Mummies whose resting spaces were disturbed during antiquity
• Tomb TT280: Tomb of Chancellor and High Steward Meketre; Middle Kingdom Period
• Tomb TT353: Tomb of Senenmut, Steward and Architect for Pharaoh Hatshepsut

When: Building commenced in the area around 15th Century BC, during the 11th Pharaonic Dynasty and joined by further huge Pharaonic monuments during the 18th Dynasty

Where: On the West Bank of the River Nile, opposite Luxor, it is part of the Theban Necropolis

Who: Pharaohs, Priests and Nobles of the Royal Court