Carvings on the walls of the Hatshepsut mortuary temple, near Luxor

Most ancient Egyptian monuments have a lot of carvings on their walls and pillars, with scenes depicting the various gods. Typically, since the pharaohs ruled by claiming divinity, the scenes also showed the pharaoh with the gods, or in many cases, the pharaoh being blessed by the god, or being granted the kingdom by the gods, and so on. In this photo, you can see some carvings on the walls of the temple, although with the passage of time, some of these carvings have got weathered away.
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