CHAPTER 9
DISRUPT A CULTURE; LEAVE A LEGACY
Egypt, 1479 BC. Thutmose II passed away. His son, Thutmose III, will be pharaoh one day, but not yet. He wasn’t old enough to rule. So, as was tradition, until her stepson was of age, Hatshepsut, the half sister and wife of the late Thutmose II, stepped in to help rule, as a regent. This was a common tradition, the appointment of someone older and wiser who would act as a temporary ruler for a short time until the true ruler was capable of claiming his or her rightful place.
And that’s where Hatshepsut’s rule should have ended—as a small dash, maybe simply an asterisk, in the annals of Egyptian history—the wife, half sister, and stepmother who managed to keep the throne warm between her husband’s and ...
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