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Ancient egypt, a time where women actually had authority to themselves, though limited, better than other civilizations.
Here are 15 interesting facts about woman ruling ancient egypt :
Some women ruled when the male heir was too young.
Ahhotep ruled egypt, because her 10 year old son was too young to rule egypt. She ruled until he turned 16.
The Egyptians actually liked Ahhotep, since her reign brought the land peace.
Ahmose (ahhotep's mother) honored his mother by placing a necklace with fly pendants in her tomb (gold fly shaped pendants have been interpreted as braveness)
The first female Pharaoh (that we know of) is called Merneith, and there was a time where experts doubted her as a Pharaoh, let alone existence.
According to a story, the female ruler Nitoctis murdered her brothers assasin.
The famous Nefertiti, was a very beautiful woman, and her name means 'the beautiful woman has come'.
Many artworks depicts Nefertiti and Akhenaten (her husband, and the Pharaoh at the time) as equals.
After aten (religion established by Akhenaten) was declared as Egypt's main god, Nefertiti changed her name to neferneferuaten, and it means 'aten is the most beautiful, nefertiti'.
Nefertiti was Tutankhamun's stepmother.
Around 1760 b.c, amenemhet died, and there was no male to take the throne, so his halfsister sobeknefru became the Pharaoh of egypt.
Tiye was a commoner, but she married Amenhotep iii.
Unlike other queens, tiye's name was engraved with her husbands name on monuments.
Tiye identified with the cow goddess, Hathor, and she was the first queen to wear hathors headdress (horns and a sundisk)
Cleopatra II revolted against her husband (and also her brother) Ptolemy VIII, when he demanded a divorce and married her daughter from a previous marriage.
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