The woman who would be king / Kara Cooney.
Publication details: New York : Crown, 2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, maps on endpapers ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780307956767
- 0307956768
- DT87.15 .C66 2014
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| DT73 .B33 H38 2000 Valley of the golden mummies / | DT77 .T54 2011 Egypt : a short history / | DT77 .W35 1997 The Egyptians / | DT87.15 .C66 2014 The woman who would be king / | DT87.5 .D4 1963 Tutankhamen; life and death of a pharaoh. | DT87.5 .G55 Discovering Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb. | DT87.5 .H68 Tutankhamun, the untold story / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-289) and index.
Divine origins -- A place of her own -- King's great wife -- Regent for a baby king -- The climb toward kingship -- Keeping the kingship -- The king becomes a man -- The setting sun -- The king is dead; long live the king -- Lost legacy.
A portrait of the longest-reigning woman pharaoh in Ancient Egypt draws on surviving artifacts to consider her unprecedented rise, her achievements and why most of her monuments were destroyed after her death.
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