What were Queen Hatshepsuts wars and warfares?
In ‘Hatchepust, the Female Pharaoh’, Joyce Tyldelsey writes: ‘Evidence is now growing to suggest that Hatchepsut’s military prowess has been seriously underestimated due to the seletcive nature of the archaeological evidence whichh has been compounded by preconceived notions of feminine pacifism. Egyptologists have assued that Hatchepsut did not fight, and have become blind to the evidence that, in fact, she did. As so many of Hatchepsut’s texts were defaced, amended or erased after her death, it is entirely possible that her war record is incomplete. Furtheremore, Hatchepsut’s reign, falling between the reigns of two of the greatest generals Egypt was ever to know (Tuthmosis I and Tuthmosis III) is bound to suffer in any immediate comparison. The Deir el-Bahri mortuatry temple provides us with evidence for defensive military activity during Hatchepsut’s reign. By the late 19th century Naville had uncovered enough references to battles to convince him that Hatchepsut had embarked on th
