Cooney, Kara.

The woman who would be king / Kara Cooney. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown, 2014. - xii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, maps on endpapers ; 25 cm.

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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2014000243


Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt.


Queens--Egypt--Biography.
Pharaohs--Biography.


Egypt--History--Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.
Egypt--Kings and rulers--Biography.

DT87.15 / .C66 2014