Hatshepsut Essay

Hatshepsut was a female Pharaoh, who attained unbelievable power and started her reign at the age of 12 in the 15th century B.C at 1473 to 1458, after her half-brother Thutmose II died. Ruling for twenty years, she is considered one of Egypt’s most successful and is one of the few females to ever become a Pharaoh. Since her nephew was only very young at the time, she acted as Regent. Eventually she became Pharaoh in her own right. Hatshepsut was a significant individual in Ancient Egyptian Society, she was a role model to most Egyptians and one of the greatest Pharaohs in Ancient Egyptian History.

Hatshepsut was praised and idolized by people in Ancient Egypt because of her significant work in constructing advanced buildings and monuments such as her mortuary temple Djeser-Djeseru located in western Thebes is considered one of the greatest achievements in Egyptian architecture. The temple was used to preserve the dead and where she would be buried when she dies. (Ducksters.

(History. (2015). Hashepsut). Deir el-Bahri, Arabic for Northern Monastery, is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs, it is located on the west bank of the Nile. It took 15 years to complete the construction of the enormous temple. Hatshepsut chose to construct her temple in a valley sacred to the Theban Goddess of the west and purposely a direct axis with Karnak Temple of Amun. The style of the earlier temples at Deir el-Bahri had some influence in Hatshepsut’s designs and plans, but her construction surpassed both in architecture and in its beautiful carved arts. Hatshepsut built such advanced buildings such as the temple at Deir el-Bahri that later Pharaohs made similar structures like hers. (Masson, L (2012). Hashepsut. argues that “the style of architecture of Hatshepsut’s reign also influenced the building styles of later pharaohs of the new kingdom such as Ramses