Hatshepsut Research Paper

The First female Pharaoh

Did you know that Hatshepsut was the longest reigning pharaoh for two decades that was a girl? I bet you didn’t even know that she had to marry her half brother and her step son. Hatshepsut was born in 1508 and died in 1458 BC. She ruled over egypt for over two decades from 1473 all the way to 1458 BC. Her father was Thutmose I, who had Thutmose II with Mutnofret, who was not Hatshepsut’s mother. Hatshepsut was Thutmose I’s eldest daughter Some people believe that Mutnofret was the daughter of Ahmosel. When Hatshepsut’s father died, in 1493 BC, the throne was passed down to her half brother Thutmose II. In Egypt it wasn’t odd for royalty to marry their family members or siblings. Thutmose II and Hatshepsut ended up having a daughter named Neferure, but the male heir was an infant that a concubine named Isis. A concubine is pretty much like a mistress.

The male heir was named Thutmose III, who was Hatshepsut’s nephew and who she would later on marry after Thutmose II dies. Hatshepsut would later on rule jointly with Thutmose III as his regent. Hatshepsut was actually Egypt’s first

Hatshepsut had the burial refurbished and had prepared to have Thutmose II buried in the same place as her and their father. During Thutmose III’s reign, he had his father moved to another tomb and had moved Hatshepsut’s mummy to a tomb with her wet nurse Sitre-Re. Hatshepsut’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, an English archeologist and Egyptologist who became famous for discovering king Tut’s tomb intact, in 1903. Carter had discovered Tut’s tomb four years later in 1907. Hatshepsut is considered to be Egypt’s most successful pharaoh in history. Hatshepsut is really interesting because she rose to power in a male dominant area. Egyptians had been so used to male pharaohs, that when Hatshepsut became pharaoh she had to change the way she dressed like how she wore the fake