Hatshepsut

He also campaigned against the cities of Syria, and reached the city of Carchemish across the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia.

When Thutmose died around 1480, he was briefly succeeded by his son, Thutmose II, and when he died, leaving his own son who was too young to rule, the state was governed in his place by Thutmose II's widow, Hatshepsut.

Unlike Sobekneferu, who had ruled as a queen at the end of the Middle Kingdom, Hatshepsut was declared king by the Oracle of Amun, and the images made of her at the time often portrayed her as a man.

She continued to rule alongside Thutmose III until her death around 20 years later.

Not long after that, a coalition of Egypt's vassal cities in Syria and Palestine, led by the city of Kadesh, fought a battle with Thutmose's forces at the town of Megiddo in northern Palestine, which is described in detail in a hieroglyphic inscription in the Temple of Amun in Thebes.

I'm going to circle back to that.

But Hatshepsut wrote, and this is under temples and in papyrus.

She wrote that... her proudest achievement was making those obelisks for Luxor and capping them with metal, which is that mix of gold and silver.

And she wrote that her proudest moment was being on the other side of the Nile and being able to see the sun gleam off of the gold on the top of the obelisk, right? So this isn't something that when you mention it, it sounds like some crazy, you know, to the side Egyptian historian wannabe, you know, talking about crazy stuff.

Well, even in ancient cultures and people's memories, people use metals for different purposes, even to heal their body.

I mean, if you put gold on yourself and go into the sun, it creates a circuit of energy because it's a conductor.

But in people's memories of Queen Hatshepsut, they remember that she was visited from childhood by a certain group of extraterrestrials.

And they told her that she would be pharaoh one day.

From the moment I had it, misfortunes attacked me.

Until I had it bound around with a double-headed snake, looped up with zodiacal plaques, and neutralized between Haydn's magic tower and two amethyst scarabae of Queen Hephaestus'

period, bought from Thebes.

So, interestingly, as a scientist and a mineralogist, I'm not sure what that means, so I find it quite interesting that the stone is mounted in the silver described, such as Heron Allen has, and I'd like to know what that actually does mean.

The first to build at Deir el-Bahri was Monta Hote, the founder of a reunified Egypt.

He was so influential that almost 600 years later, female pharaoh Hatshepsut built her own funerary temple right next door to tap into the religious and political power of her illustrious predecessor.

In the Middle Kingdom, life for ordinary people was on the up.

Food was plentiful.

Okay.

In which Egyptian valley would you find the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut? Hmm.

In which Egyptian valley would you find the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut?

I'll just go with something generic to Egypt.

Let's go with the Valley of the Pharaohs.

They were wild times.

Question 23.

In which Egyptian valley would you find the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut?

When Moses reaches maturity, he has a choice.

Remember, he has already been raised by Hatshepsut.

Okay, we're not gonna worry you with all of these Egyptian names, but a daughter of Egypt, of the Pharaoh.

And therefore, within Moses' grasp is the possible throne of Egypt, at minimal the riches of Egypt and the pleasures of Egypt.

Are there going to be different stories that will resonate with them? We're talking about a science connection here, but you've also included women whose discoveries and successes fell outside of science, right? So can you tell us about some of them?

Yeah, well, the first one that you mentioned is Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh of ancient Egypt, whose name was literally chiseled off the walls after she died.

And all the way up to people like Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in the discovery of the shape of DNA and did not receive a Nobel Prize, even though the men who did get that prize used her data.

So these are patterns that are playing out around the world, throughout history, affecting women in any field that has traditionally been considered a thing that was just for men.