
Deir el-Bahari, also known as Dayr al-Bahri or Djeser-Djeseru, is a complex of Ancient Egyptian mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt and within the Theban Necropolis. Pharaoh Mentuhotep II (r. 2060-2009 BC) built a mortuar temple in the dried-out bay of Deir el-Bahari, and Hatshepsut and Thutmose III also built mortuary temples in the area. In 1997, six al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya terrorists disguised as security personnel massacred 58 tourists (36 of them Swiss and 10 Japanese) at the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in the "Luxor massacre", causing a reduction of tourism in the area.