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msjoanna 's review for:
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
by Joyce Tyldesley
A fascinating, academic biography of Hatchepsut. The book starts with enough general information about the time period and the other Egyptian rulers that I was able to understand the context. This book does an excellent job telling both the story of the archaeological evidence (such as it is) as well as the story of the history of scholars and their own biases that affected their interpretations of the evidence. Hatchepsut is a tantalizing figure. How did this woman become not just a queen, but a king? What was her relationship to her step-son who became the next Pharaoh? Did she have a romance with her architect. Because her history was attacked and largely obscured in antiquity for unknown reasons, likely, though not necessarily, because she was a woman who took the (male) role of King, we don't have clear answers.