What possessions were buried with queen hatshepsut?
During this period at least one woman laid claim to the throne of Egypt. Hatshepsut was the queen of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II. When he died, she served at first as regent for her young stepson but soon claimed the royal title for herself (r. 1473-1458 B.C.E.). In the inscriptions which she commissioned for her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri, she often used the male pronoun to refer to herself, and drawings show her wearing the long, conical beard symbolic of the king of Egypt. (Buillet, et al, The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History) Of the union of Thutmose I with the “Great Royal Wife” Ahmose four children were born-two sons, Wadjmose and Amenmose, and two daughters, Hatshepsut and Nefrubity. But the king had been married to another princess also-a certain Mutnofret, who was a close relation, possibly even a younger sister, of Ahmose-and she had borne to the pharaoh a son who was named Thutmose for his father and who later became King Thutmose II. According to Egyptian tradition, i
