A review by balfies
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

I!!!!! Love!!!!! Hatshepsut!!!!! 

This was fucking fascinating. The only female leader of antiquity who ruled peacefully for a long period of time.

Hatshepsut used and transformed longheld religious symbols, adopted and adapted the masculinised pharaonic ideal, and built a reputation so fucking impactful that they couldn't chisel her reign from the walls even though they tried. Hatshepsut......I love you
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