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The King Who Was a Woman: A Novel of Hatshepsut

The King Who Was a Woman: A Novel of Hatshepsut

Gallantine, Daniel

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Series: Great Historical Lives: Series 1, Ancient Civilisations, Book 3

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ISBN13: 9798190298581
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hatshepsut is the third life in the Ancient Civilisations series. She ruled Egypt for twenty years. Her successor spent decades erasing her from history. He failed.

Hatshepsut was not supposed to be pharaoh. Her stepson Thutmose III was the heir. But when he was too young to rule, Hatshepsut took the throne, and then, slowly, did something unprecedented: she began to portray herself not as regent but as pharaoh, wearing the double crown, the false beard, the kilt. She governed Egypt for two decades with a combination of administrative brilliance, military confidence, and cultural ambition that few rulers of either sex have equalled. She sent the legendary expedition to the land of Punt. She raised the tallest obelisks in the ancient world. She built Deir el-Bahri, one of the most beautiful temples ever constructed, into the cliffs above the Nile.

After her death, Thutmose III ordered her image chiselled from every monument, her name erased from every inscription, her statues shattered. For three thousand years it worked. Then Egyptology found the gaps in the stone and reconstructed who had been removed. History has rarely produced a more complete account of a deliberate erasure... or of its failure.

This dramatic reconstruction brings Hatshepsut fully to life: the daughter of Thutmose I who grew up understanding power, the regent who recognised her own capacity for something larger, the pharaoh who navigated a world that had no category for what she was doing, and the figure whose memory her successor tried to destroy. It is a novel about ambition, about power wielded with precision and care, about what it means to govern a civilisation, and about what happens when someone cannot accept that a woman was great.

Told with the vivid exactness that the historical record makes possible and the imaginative depth that it requires, this is the story of the woman who was almost lost to history and who turned out to be too extraordinary to lose.

The King Who Was a Woman is the third novel in the Ancient Civilisations series.

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