Rebel Pharaoh : Hatshepsut Unveiled

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Smith, G Elliot The Royal Mummies reprint. Segerseni Qakare Ini Iyibkhentre. Senebkay Wepwawetemsaf Pantjeny Snaaib. Piye Shebitku Shabaka Taharqa Tanutamun. Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. This page was last edited on 10 December , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Pylons IV and V, two obelisks, and a hypostyle hall at Karnak. Pharaohs of the New Kingdom create at Thebes the great temples of Karnak and Luxor and are buried, on the other side of the Nile, in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings.

The kingdom spans three dynasties but it is the first two, the 18th and 19th, which provide its greatest glories in temples of Amen-Re though there is an interim period in the 18th dynasty, under Akhenaten , when this time-honoured god of the pharaohs is forcefully rejected. The first powerful ruler of the New Kingdom is Thutmose I. Son of the pharaoh by a concubine, he secures the succession by marrying his fully royal half-sister. Succeeding to the throne in about BC, Thutmose vigorously extends Egypt's empire.

He conquers south into Nubia as far as the fourth cataract of the Nile. In the north he reaches Syria and the Euphrates. Marriage to a half-sister is common practice in Egypt's dynasties, and it occurs again and for the same purpose among Thutmose's children. His heir, also Thutmose, is the son of a lesser wife. So he is married to his royal half-sister Hatshepsut, a daughter of the queen. Thutmose II succeeds his father some time around BC but dies a few years later. His heir, Thutmose III, son of a concubine, is an infant when he inherits.

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Hatshepsut takes power - first as regent for her stepson but then, perhaps in about , as pharaoh in her own right. Hatshepsut is a rare exception in ruling a native Egyptian dynasty as pharaoh. She appears on her monuments in male attire even wearing the false beard which is a special attribute of the pharaoh and she rules as forcefully as any man, though she devotes herself to the arts of peace rather than war.

Trade and architecture are her main concerns.

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Hatshepsut sends a famous trading mission to Punt an area probably on the Red Sea coast of modern Somalia , which results in a new supply of gold, ebony and myrrh. She continues her father's building programme at Karnak. And her name lives today in the great funerary temple which she builds on the other side of the river in commemoration of herself and her father.

Hatshepsut dies in about and is succeeded by her stepson Thutmose III the rightful heir to the throne which she has usurped. He inherits at a time when the vassal states in Palestine and Syria, subdued by Thutmose I, are reasserting their independence. It is a challenge which Thutmose III proves well suited to meet.

In the first of many campaigns to the north in about Thutmose wins a spectacular victory near Megiddo , the details of which he records in an inscription in the temple at Karnak. He soon recovers control over all the regions conquered by his grandfather, but he adopts a more statesmanlike attitude to empire than his predecessor. Young princes from the conquered territories are brought back to Thebes to be educated in the Egyptian way of life.

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Thus indoctrinated, and with personal contacts at the centre of power, they return home to rule their vassal states in a frame of mind more inclined to cooperation than rebellion. Thutmose sets an early pattern for a wise imperial policy. Like his predecessors, Thutmose III is a passionate builder, adding greatly to the splendours of Karnak.

His great grandson Amenhotep III continues the tradition, diverting attention to the southern part of Thebes, at Luxor , where he begins the great temple to Amen-Re. During a century and a half Thutmose I and his descendants have done great honour to this traditional god of the pharaohs, the blend of Amen the local god of Thebes and the earlier sun god Re.

The challenge from Aten: For one brief period Amen is shifted from his central position in the Egyptian pantheon. Soon after Amenhotep IV comes to the throne, in about BC, he changes his name from Amenhotep 'Amen is satisfied' to Akhenaten 'beneficial to Aten' , signifying that the new state deity is to be Aten, the disk of the sun. Six years later Akhenaten moves the court from Thebes to an entirely new capital city, some miles down the Nile at a site now known as Tell el Amarna. A great temple to Aten is its central feature. Set, in Egyptian legend was the murderer of Osiris.

They most frequently occur in generalizing toponym lists where the context helps little in pinpointing their location. But lists from Soleb and Amarah [in Nubia], ultimately of fifteenth century [B. Here a group of six names is identified as in 'the land of the Shasu' and these include Se'ir i.

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Numerous passages in later Biblical tradition A reasonable deduction is that they were requested by Akhenaten to assist in his return to Egypt, either to reclaim his throne, or to extract the remainder of his followers "speak to Pharaoh about bringing the Israelites out".

The size of the Shasu force , by the Karnak account , which may have included the Exodus party "the foe belonging to the Shasu" , and their actions possibly raiding two Egyptian garrisons along the Via Maris in order to obtain water 16 were likely used as justification for a counterstrike by Seti. The attacks on the Shasu were continued in the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II who succeeded Seti, and were again considered important enough to be recorded on the walls of the Karnak temple, and at the Nile Delta city of Tanis 17 as well.

Moreover, Ramses II's son and successor Merenptah lists another group in lieu of the Shasu as being a victim of his father's campaigning in Palestine, namely Israel itself Israel stela account , indicating that by Merenptah's time Israel was recognized as a separate people apart from the groups recorded by the Egyptians as living in "the land of the Shasu. The women in Egypt carried the royal blood, not the males.

To become Pharaoh, the man had to marry a female of royal blood, often a sister, half sister or other near relative. Usually it was the eldest daughter of the previous Pharaoh. Although this child was called a daughter, I believe it to be a male child born to Hatshepsut which would later be known as Moses sutherland daughter Neferura However, Hatshepsut was appointed regent due to the boy's young age. Thutmose had her shrines, statues and reliefs mutilated. Notes by Mary Sutherland: By mixing their copper based blood with the hemoglobin based blood of the 'commoner', risks of hemophilia ran quite high.

To avoid this, the law against blue bloods marrying commoners was necessary. Artifact showing what we know today as the Dendera Light Bulb found in Egypt. Photo on right shows the hieroglyph of these lights used in the Pyramids. Within the documentary dramatic video, footage was shown that revealed hieroglyphs in central Egypt that resembled a transparent glass tube with a form within it that had the likings of a serpent, obviously representing some kind of light.

Staff of Moses at Birmingham Museum. If you look closely, there are symbols on the staff. Shop in our Store.