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How Did Hatshepsut Become Pharaoh? - The Female Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the early 1470s BCE, a royal woman at Thebes transformed a temporary regency into permanent pharaonic kingship. Her name was Hatshepsut, and rather than seizing power through military force or rejecting Egyptian conventions, she mastered the established visual and theological language of divine rule so completely that she expanded what the office of pharaoh could contain. This episode examines how she assumed the full royal titulary, commissioned the terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri…
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