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In 1488 BCE, Hatshepsut made her most daring move. She pushed her newphew (Thutmose III) to one side and proclaimed herself King of Upper and Lower Egypt. At a stroke, Egypt had two kings, ruling at once...

• Date c.1488 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 2008.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would be King, 2014.

James H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, vol. II, 1906.

Catherine A. Roehrig (editor), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, 2005.

Edouard Naville, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari, vols. V and VI, 1906.

Marta Sankiewicz, “The ‘co-regency’ of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III in light of iconography in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari,” Current Research in Egyptology 2010, 2011. Read Online.

Betsy M. Bryan (editor), Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut, 2014.

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