The Woman Who Would Be King: Pharaoh Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt | Dr. Kara Cooney

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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut-the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne-was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascended to the rank of pharaoh.
Shrewdly operating the levers of power to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. She successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific building periods.
Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power-and why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power.
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➡📚Get her book! amzn.to/3QyC9HL

[@scottduke]

This was a fascinating interview, Jacob. Professor Cooney is always such a good storyteller!

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“avoiding in-laws” was seen as a major benefit of brother-sister marriages 😂

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I'm learning and loving it

[@beardimpossible1962]

It makes it very interesting if you know that Hatshepsut was the Biblical Moses' mother. My mind is blown how this fits so well. Too bad these historians will never know the truth.

[@annalisette5897]

There is something we do not seem to understand about ancient Egyptian royal family structure. It seems there is a pattern, at least in the eighteenth dynasty, of three persons ruling at once, sort of... There is the pharaoh, great royal wife (god's wife) and frequently a person in training under a regency. We see a lot of confusion with this toward the end of Akhenaten's reign. Was/could Nefertiti have been a pharaoh, a male king, in a regency with Akhenaten? Did daughter Meritaten move up to become great royal wife simply to fill a position that was temporarily vacant? If so, what were her actual duties? Modern comments seek to shock by saying she had sex with her father, but maybe she did not. It seemed a role needed to be filled and it was expedient to advance the eldest daughter.

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strong talk

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Could Hatshepsut be Deborah in the Old Testament?

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I know you're an atheist and I am a Christian history but I have a question do you have an email or a discord I can ask you a question

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