The Forgotten Pharaoh

Hatshepsut, Egypt’s Exceptional Female Ruler

Rediscovering the legacy of the woman who wore the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt

Mehdi E.
Lessons from History
4 min readSep 22, 2023

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Imagined portrait of Hatshepsut, fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt
Imagined portrait of Hatshepsut, fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt, via Dean Mitchell

Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, was a woman who truly dared to challenge the status quo and ascend to the pinnacle of power in a male-dominated…

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Mehdi E.
Lessons from History

Journalist & Amateur Historian. I have a knack for digging out little-known, yet interesting, historical facts.