Hatshepsut Female Pharaoh Of Egypt ؛ Foremost of Noble Ladies.[Part I]

What do you know about Hatchopsut? 

Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies.
1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty.

Hatshepsut in Photoshop design

Her Reign

Hatshepsut was given a reign of about twenty-two years by ancient authors .

Although it was uncommon for Egypt to be ruled by a woman, the situation was not unprecedented.


In comparison with other female pharaohs, Hatshepsut's reign was much longer and prosperous. She was successful in warfare early in her reign, but generally is considered to be a pharaoh who inaugurated a long peaceful era. She re-established trading relationships lost during a foreign occupation and brought great wealth to Egypt. That wealth enabled Hatshepsut to initiate building projects that raised the calibre of Ancient Egyptian architecture to a standard, comparable to classical architecture, that would not be rivaled by any other culture for a thousand years. 

Her Building projects

Hatshepsut was one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt, commissioning hundreds of construction projects throughout both Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, that were grander and more numerous than those of any of her Middle Kingdom predecessors. Later pharaohs attempted to claim some of her projects as their's. 

During her reign she employed the great architect Ineni, who also had worked for her father, and her husband.

[Ineni was an Ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major construction projects under the pharaohs Amenhotep I,Thutmose I, Thutmose II and the joint reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.  He came from an aristocratic family. He had many titles, including Superintendent of the Granaries, and Superintendent of the Royal Buildings, Superintendent of the Workmen in the Karnak Treasuries.]

Some of her projects :

*Following the tradition of most pharaohs, Hatshepsut had monuments constructed at the Temple of Karnak. 

*She also restored the original Precinct of Mut, the ancient great goddess of Egypt, at Karnak that had been ravaged by the foreign rulers during the Hyksos occupation. It later was ravaged by other pharaohs, who took one part after another to use in their pet projects and awaits restoration. 

*She had twin obelisks, at the time the tallest in the world, erected at the entrance to the temple. One still stands, as the tallest surviving ancient obelisk on Earth; the other has broken in two and toppled. 

*Karnak's Red Chapel, or Chapelle Rouge :have stood between her two obelisks. It was lined with carved stones that depicted significant events in Hatshepsut's life.

*She later ordered the construction of two more obelisks to celebrate her sixteenth year as pharaoh; one of the obelisks broke during construction, and thus, a third was constructed to replace it. The broken obelisk was left at its quarrying site in Aswan, where it still remains. Known as The Unfinished Obelisk, it demonstrates how obelisks were quarried.
*Following the tradition of many pharaohs, the masterpiece of Hatshepsut's building projects was her mortuary temple. She built hers in a complex at Deir el-Bahri. It was designed and implemented by Senemut at a site on the West Bank of the Nile River near the entrance to what now is called the Valley of the Kings because of all the pharaohs who later chose to associate their complexes with the grandeur of hers. Her buildings were the first grand ones planned for that location .

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