Queen Hatshepsut

Queen Hatshepsut built a red quartzite sanetuary in the Temple of Amun in Kamak about 1470BCE." She ereeted two magnificent obelisks amid Pylons 111 to VI. These formed the entry to the chamber for the sacred barque and were the first eult focus in the temple. Two obelisks, together with four flagpoles, formed a classical temple front. 

The only other mortal to share the divinity of Imhotep was a sage of the eighteenth dynasty called Amen Hetep Son of Hapu. His cult shared a healing shrine with Imhotep at the Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in 1470BCE. This was located at Deir El Bahri in the Western Desert near Thebes. It operated until Christian times. 

The period when essential oils were used rst on an industrial scale is dif cult to identify. The nineteenth century is generally regarded as the commencement of the modern phase of industrial application of essential oils. However, the large-scale usage of essential oils dates back to ancient Egypt. In 1480, Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt sent an expedition to the country of Punt (now Somalia) to... 

Queen Hatshepsut s expedition to Punt, 1493 BC (recorded in waii-reiief at Deir ei-Bahri, 1480 bc)... 

As early as 3500 B.C., the Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut, used cinnamon as an aromatic. And in 3000 B.C., history records that the gods of the Mesopotamian peoples drank sesame wine, one of the products for which this popular seed was used. 

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