PHAROAH HATSHEPSU
By: Kelsi, Alex, and Eric

QUESTIONS

• Why did she want to be depicted as a man?
• Why did she want to be pharaoh?

HATHEPSUT

• She was born is Egypt in 1508 B.C.-- and died at age 50 in 1458 B.C.
• she was the longest raining female pharaoh in Kemet raining for more then 20 year
• She married her half borther Thutmose ll in 1615 B.C. who reigned for 15 years

HATSHEPSUT

• She dressed as a king and even wore a false beard and began having herself depicted as a traditional king.
• Unlike other rulers in her dynasty, she was more intrested in ensuring economic prosperity and building and restoring mouments throughtout Keet and Nubia than in conqiering new lands.
• Hatshepsut built two obelisks, cut at the Ancient Granite quarry in Aswan and transported them to Kamak Temple

HATSHEPSUT

• Her father died when she was 12
• She declared herself pharoah around 1417 B.C.
• She built the Mortuary temple at Beir el Bahri called Djeser-Djeseru(holiest of holy places)