Hatchepsut: The Female PharaohPenguin Books Limited, 1998 - 304 pages Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Forgotten until Egptologists deciphered hieroglyphics in the 1820's, she has since been subject to intense speculation about her actions and motivations. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Joyce Tyldesley's dazzling piece of detection strips away the myths and misconceptions and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place. |
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... body was un- wrapped by the French egyptologist Gaston Maspero in 1886 , and exam- ined by the distinguished anatomist G. Elliot Smith in 1906. The mummy was clearly a disturbing sight , with horrific head and neck injuries caused by ...
... body was un- wrapped by the French egyptologist Gaston Maspero in 1886 , and exam- ined by the distinguished anatomist G. Elliot Smith in 1906. The mummy was clearly a disturbing sight , with horrific head and neck injuries caused by ...
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... body itself . Egyptian theology decreed that the soul , or Ka , could not survive if the body was destroyed and , as the prospect of ' dying the second death ' ( that is , the destruction of the body and subsequent death of the soul ) ...
... body itself . Egyptian theology decreed that the soul , or Ka , could not survive if the body was destroyed and , as the prospect of ' dying the second death ' ( that is , the destruction of the body and subsequent death of the soul ) ...
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... body , wrapped in bandages and encased within at least one wooden coffin , would have fitted into her smallest sarcophagus , that recovered from the Wadi Sikkat Taka ez - Zeida , which would have taken a coffin up to 181 cm ( 5 ft 11 in ) ...
... body , wrapped in bandages and encased within at least one wooden coffin , would have fitted into her smallest sarcophagus , that recovered from the Wadi Sikkat Taka ez - Zeida , which would have taken a coffin up to 181 cm ( 5 ft 11 in ) ...
Contents
Introduction | 6 |
Backdrop Egypt in the Early Eighteenth Dynasty | 15 |
A Strong Family The Tuthmosides | 43 |
Copyright | |
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