Egypt
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- Here Comes Hatshepsut
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/12471495.htm"The Kimbell Art Museum has announced that Hatshepsut, the most powerful female ruler of ancient Egypt, will be the subject of a show at the museum next year. Hatshepsut was more than a queen regent...
Egypt
The Double Crown - Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh
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South African author Marié Heese won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa Region Best Book for The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh (Human & Rousseau). It is the story of Hatshepsut, as told by the pharaoh herself. This is an extract.
I am the chosen of the gods. I have always known that. This knowledge has been the source of my strength and my power, and it is the reason why I know that those who now seek my death and desire to usurp my throne shall not succeed.
Yet I have decided that I must make a secret record with details about those whom I do not trust. I shall give the scrolls that I produce into the keeping of my scribe, the faithful Mahu. If I die a wrongful death, he must hand them to someone in power who will avenge me. Mahu will have to decide who the right person might be. I shall ensure that there will be sufficient evidence to see to it that the guilty, if such there are, suffer the just punishment of the gods and do not reap great benefits from treason.
- Another Report Re Proposal That Arsinoe Was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new...
- Did Queen Arsinoe Rule As Pharaoh?
Science Daily With photo. A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period following the death of...
- What Scents Did The Ancient Egyptians Use?
Science Daily The Ancient Egyptians cherished their fragrant scents, too, as perfume flacons from this period indicate. In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University's Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example on display. Screening...
- Fiction Review: Pharaoh - The Boy Who Conquered The Nile
Lowly's Book Blog Pharaoh - the boy who conquered the Nile, by Jackie French. The book is set long before the pyramids were built. In fact the Pharaoh of the title actually ruled before the first Egyptian dynasty. Wikipedia referrs to Narmer as pharaoh,...
- Here Comes Hatshepsut
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/12471495.htm"The Kimbell Art Museum has announced that Hatshepsut, the most powerful female ruler of ancient Egypt, will be the subject of a show at the museum next year. Hatshepsut was more than a queen regent...