Who is Hatshepsut?
Hatshepsut was a woman who ruled Egypt between 1479-1457 BCE. Contrary to popular belief, she was not the first woman in Egyptian history to take the role of pharaoh, but she is among the most famous, thanks to her extremely long and relatively prosperous reign. For Egyptologists, Hatshepsut was the cause of much confusion and mystery for an extended period of time, due to attempts to literally obliterate her from history by chiseling her likeness and cartouches from artistic depictions of the period in which she lived and ruled. Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and Ahmose, and evidence suggests that she was very close to her parents and may have in fact been favored as a potential ruler of Egypt. When her father died in 1493 BCE, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and came to be known as the Great Royal Wife. Upon the death of her husband, Thutmose III, his son by another wife, technically ascended the throne, but due to his youth, Hatshepsut became regent, and over t
According to touregypt.net, she was the middle child of Thuthmose I and Ahmes. Upon Her father’s death, her half brother Thuthmose II took both the thrown and Hatshepsut as his wife. Thuthmose II soon died, and his young son Thuthmose III became Pharaoh. However, after a number of years Hatshepsut proclaimed herself as Pharaoh before her half son could take the thrown, sporting a royal headdress and false beard. Hatshepsut ruled for twenty years, until she mysteriously ‘disappeared’. The half son she took the thrown from had reclaimed his title, and it is not known whether he murdered Hatshepsut. How did they do it? With a tooth. Zahi Hawass and his team in Egypt performed a CT scan of a two previously discovered mummies, either thought to belong to Hatshepsut. There was also a box contained a tooth with Hatshepsut’s name inscribed into it, but which mummy it belonged to remained a mystery. However, after the CT scan Hawass was able to match the tooth with great precision to a missing
