#hapshepsut

[nyahkmenrah]

Transphobic and sexist ppl: whaa all this gender stuff is just a modern trend to indoctrinate kids!1!1

Hapshepsut, literal pharaoh of ancient Egypt:

[the-ghost-of-mr-dolphin]

Gender is so confusing right now I’m like she/her but don’t you dare use feminine words to describe me. You may refer to me as “her highness the king” and nothing else. 

[quo-usque-tandem]

Hapshepsut - Egypt, 1479 B.C.E.

[jandby]

Hapshepsut's Mortuary Temple is in an awe-inspiring setting and beautifully preserved. Hapshepsut was one of the few woman Pharaohs and was a powerful one at that. We learned that the "correct" way to pronounce her name is "hat-cheap-suit"!?

[sureinarts]

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut another famous queen of Egypt, and was the first female Pharaoh to reign the Egyptian dynasty. Her reigning was a sucessful and peaceful reign that made her a legend. 

Hatshepsut was originally, a minor kings wife. Hat’s husband was Thutmose the ii. Appointed as king at 10 years old, he made many sucessful decisions, as well as some mistakes.

Hatshepsut eventually took the throne and made many excellent decisions while Thutmose fought in wars with many other countries.

She reigned for contiuous years until her death around the age 50 years old. There are still many questions about her death, Example: obesity. 

Being the first female pharaoh, was risky especially the society that they lived in back then. 

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

why there's so many movies about Cleopatra when Nefertiti, Hatshepsut etc has a story more interesting?

I think the obsession with her is her perceived whiteness (there’s several sources that prove she’s was probably half Egyptian the concept of whiteness didn’t exist back then) because she was Greek and she ended up with two white Roman men.

I found out that there is a movie about Nefertiti and she’s whitewashed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti,_figlia_del_sole

With Hapshepsut at least she hasn’t been whitewashed but still no movie of her. Like I think someone like Sam Esmail or Rami Malek could make these films.

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[historyheroines]

Hatshepsut (c. 1508-1458 BC), meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies, was a Pharaoh in the 18th dynasty of Egypt.  

She was one of the most successful rulers of Ancient Egypt, ruling for approximately 22 peaceful years.  In that time, her diplomatic skills provided unprecedented amounts of trade and new trade routes for Egypt.  She also oversaw the first diplomatic foray into the Land of Punt, which was a success: her emissaries brought back delegates from Punt as well as live myrrh trees - the first recorded successful attempt at transplanting foreign trees.  She planted the trees in her mortuary temple gardens.  Pharaoh Hapshepsut was also a prolific builder, commissioning many grand temples and statues.  The statuary created during her reign was so numerous that almost every major museum in the world has at least an example of it.  In statuary she is always portrayed with the pharaonic emblems of power: the false beard and Khat head cloth (as above) and shendyt kilt.  These were not attempts to depict herself as a man, but as bearing the emblems of her legitimate rule as a god to her people.

Here is a great article by the Smithsonian on early Egyptologists' depiction of Hapshepsut and what seems to square more with what actually happened: The Queen Who Would Be King > 

[subdee]

It's my review of the two-shot manga by Year 24 artist Ryouko Yamagishi!

Too many scans, not enough analysis, aha  It's an interesting (bonkers) manga, though.