Most often depicted as a cow or as a lady with cow ears, Hathor was the spiritual overseer of fertility, women and emotions. From this unexpected treasure trove, the archaeologists excavated many delicately carved female figurines and other offerings to the sky goddess Hathor. Michalowskit’s 1960s mission, another team of Polish archaeologists were recently reconstructing a ceiling in the Hathor Goddess Chapel when they discovered a 3,500-year-old rubbish dump. Chudzik/ PAP ) Excavating the Hathor Goddess Chapel: One Man’s Trash, is an Archaeologists Treasure View of the rubble and trash discovered in the tomb under the Hatshepsut temple, where all the Hathor goddess figurines were discovered. This architectural wonder from the ancient world was built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, that spanned from 1550/1549 to 1292 BC. Located opposite the modern city of Luxor, on the east bank of the Nile River on the site of ancient Thebes, three massive terraces rise from the desert floor into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. In 1961, the Polish professor Kazimierz Michalowskit led the first of that nation’s archaeological expeditions to preserve the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. They had inadvertently discovered an ancient temple dump and strewn among the shattered ancient objects they excavated hundreds of votive offerings to the mistress of love, the goddess Hathor. Polish archaeologists in Egypt were supporting a tomb ceiling when they realized that beneath their feet lay an unknown treasure trove.
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