Hatshepsut is a controversial pharaoh and it's purely because she was a pharaoh and one of the greatest by most accounts (and in our opinion). Join us as we examine her life, legacy, and the misogyny that tainted both and led to her nearly being erased from history.
*Note: Senenmut actually died before Hatshepsut, but he still faced the brunt of the erasure immediately after her death.
References
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
The Woman who Would Be King by Kara Cooney
Hatchepsut by Joyce Tyldesley
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period in The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by
Betsy M. Bryan.
Property and the God's Wives of Amun Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
University, Conference on Women and Property
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt by Lewis, J. E.
Hatshepsut by Margaux Baum and Susanna Thomas
https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc69.pdf
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-queen-who-would-be-king-130328511/
https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/82622
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