She was real, she lived once, and she had more power than perhaps any woman in world history. But still she disappeared from all fairy tales and stories; her memory was literally cut away from rock walls and tomb chapels, from temple walls and memorial statues – before she was finally rediscovered. This is the story of Hatshepsut, the mistress of Egypt, whose name for countless years was not even allowed to be pronounced.
A female pharaoh
When scientists in the 19th century finally learned to read Egypt’s ancient written language, the hieroglyphs, a whole new and fantastic world of … CONTINUE READING
