Hatchepsut
Material type: TextPublication details: Penguin BooksDescription: 304 pagesISBN:- 9780140244649
- 932.014092
- DT87.15
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932 NEWB Warrior Pharaohs: The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Empire | 932 OSMA Stranger in the Valley of the Kings | 932 REEV Akhenaten | 932 TYLD Hatchepsut | 932 VRET Alexandria, City of the Western Mind | 932.01 ROME Ancient Lives | 933 RICH Herod |
Egypt?s Queen?or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King?Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity, and remarkable architectural achievement (c. 1490 b.c.). Had she been born a man, her reign would almost certainly have been remembered for its stable government, successful trade missions, and the construction of one of the most beautiful structures in the world?the Deir el-Bahri temple at Luxor. After her death, however, her name and image were viciously attacked, her monuments destroyed or usurped, her place in history systematically obliterated. At last, in this dazzling work of archaeological and historical sleuthing, Joyce Tyldesley rescues this intriguing figure from more than two thousand years of oblivion and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful prominence as the first woman in recorded history to rule a nation.
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