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Bearded lady Curse of Cleopatra
Hatshepsut wasted no time Hatshepsut’s achievements
making her mark by establishing have been OVERSHADOWED
trade links and constructing by Cleopatra VII, whose
major monuments. But this was turbulent reign from 51–30 BCE
still ultimately a man’s world, so brought an end to Egypt’s
Hatshepsut dressed in the full pharaohs. First ruling with her
regalia of a male monarch, brothers, she later overthrew
including a kilt, a crown, and an them to take sole charge.
artificial beard. Artists always Losing to the Romans in the
depicted her with a beard, and Battle of Actium proved too
she was sometimes called “HE” much, as she tragically took her
in the documents of the time. own life with a snake’s bite.

By the way…
The snake was
I married my brother an Egyptian cobra.
Ptolemy XIII, and jointly
ruled with him for a while. Tomb treasures
I then convinced Julius
Caesar to get rid of him, Hatshepsut, like all royal rulers, was buried

and I ruled alone!
in an ornate tomb inside a specially crafted
temple. Kings and queens were laid to rest
together with the TREASURED POSSESSIONS
and everyday goods they had valued the
most, to get them prepared for the afterlife.
Cleopatra’s tomb has never been found.

Hatshepsut was
buried in a temple
near the Valley of
the Kings, Egypt.

How it changed
the world

Though she had to appear
and act like a male ruler
to be taken seriously,
Hatshepsut’s great reign
proved women could be just
AHMOSE-NEFERTARI as good as, if not better
than, men on the
Pharaoh Djoser, who ruled was among the
from 2670 to 2651 BCE, first female rulers political stage.
constructed the FIRST of Egypt in 1525–1504
PYRAMID, which BCE, acting as co-
was the first great regent for her son
stone building. Amenhotep I.
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