Hatchepsut
Subtitle: the female pharaoh
By: Joyce Tyldesley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780670859764
Subjects: Historia; History; Reyes y gobernantes; Dinastía XVIII, ca. 1570 1320 a.C.; Biography; Queens
Description: Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King - Hatchepsut was a remarkable woman. Born the eldest daughter of King Tuthmosis I, married to her half-brother Tuthmosis II, and guardian of her young stepson-nephew Tuthmosis III, Hatchepsut, the Female Pharaoh, brilliantly defied tradition and established herself on the divine throne of the pharaohs to become the female embodiment of a man, dressing in male clothing and even sporting the pharaoh's traditional false.

beard. Her reign was a carefully balanced period of internal peace, foreign exploration and monumental building, and Egypt prospered under her rule. After her death, however, a serious attempt was made to obliterate Hatchepsut's memory from the history of Egypt. Her monuments were either destroyed or usurped, her portraits were vandalized and, for over two thousand years, her name was forgotten. The political climate leading to Hatchepsut's unprecedented assumption of.

power and the principal achievements of her reign are considered in detail, and the vicious attacks on Hatchepsut's name and image are explored in full. By combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Joyce Tyldesley provides the reader with an intriguing insight into life within the claustrophobic Theban royal family in early 18th Dynasty Egypt. At last, the Female Pharaoh is restored.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Backdrop: Egypt in the early eighteenth dynasty; title: A strong family: the Tuthmosides; title: Queen of Egypt; title: King of Egypt; title: War and peace; title: Propaganda in stone; title: Senenmut: greatest of the great; title: The end and the aftermath.