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After the introduction of Christianity, Hatshepsut`s temple was used as a monastery, hence its modern name, Deir el-Bahri, Arabic for `Northern Monastery.` Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh who had herself represented pictorially as a male. She served as co-regent with her nephew Thutmose III c. 1479-1425 B.C.E.