Hatshepsut
Biography
Regent for Thutmose III, she took the full kingship, depicted in the false beard. The Punt expedition, myrrh trees transported, obelisks at Karnak, the terraced Deir el-Bahari temple her masterpiece. Twenty years of peace and trade prosperity. Thutmose III, her stepson successor, erased her monuments decades later, the chisels found incomplete. Her rediscovery 1903, the beard debate, the woman who was king.
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