Hatshepsut her Expedition to Punt, the coast of Somalia, by Prof. Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Christiane DesrochesNoblecourt, La Reine Mysterieuse (the Mysterious Queen) Hatshepsut, Pygmalion, Paris, 2002, 504p. The last book of the famous French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt is dedicated to a not yet very wellknown royal person of the Pharaonic times: Maatkare Hatshepsut, the First Queen of the World History. The importance of Hatshepsut lies above all in the fact that, referring to her, we use the term queen not in the simple sense wife to a Pharaoh, but with the meaning of the sole and indisputable ruler of the country. In that way, Hatshepsut has truly been the first queen all over the World Daughter to Tuthmosis I, wife to Tuthmosis II and aunt to Tuthmosis III, Maatkare Hatshepsut prevented the latter from becoming a Pharaoh and fully exercising his tasks, and she ruled in his stead for about 20 years, 1479 1457 according to the recent studies of DesrochesNoblecourt (p. 8 10). First published in the Egyptian monthly CLEO, October 2002 Republished online in Buzzle:
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