When did Hatshepsut die and when was she born?

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Thutmose II died after a 15 year reign, making Hatshepsut a widow before the age of 30. Hatshepsut had no sons -- only a daughter, Neferure -- and the male heir was an infant, born to a concubine named Isis.

Answer 2

AnswerEgyptologists are unable to work out or establish the exact year of Hatshepsut's birth. We must therefore rely on assumption and analysis. According to convention, Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt from 1473-1458 B.C. If she was 25 at the start of her reign, logically she was born in circa 1498 BC.

What does seem to be indisputable is that her archives and records were desecrated by Thutmosis III or by a later ruler. Why did that happen? There had to be an important reason. Later pharaohs did not normally interfere with another's heritage. There appear to be two important exceptions in ancient Egypt - Akhenaten (and other Amarnan pharaohs) and Hatshepsut. The former was a religious heretic and Hatshepsut's heritage is assumed to have been desecrated because she wickedly usurped the throne. A queen briefly ruled Egypt at the end of the 12th dynasty and Cleopatra was nominally Queen in the Roman era.

AnswerThere is an important reason for the desecration of Hatshepsut's archives. Thutmosis III did not want people to learn about other people's better places or learn about alternative theories. It is virtually impossible to give "specific answers" as per the above request (and see below). We just have to accept "about 1498 BC" as near enough. Firstly, we believe she reigned initially as joint sovereign with Thutmose II. Although, as it turned out via Thutmose III's reactions, even that was probably only recognised as a technical arrangement under the constitutional agreement that established this particular 'joint sovereignty'. Thus, dating precision becomes a mere fiction. What's at issue is whether she reigned between 1473-1458 B.C or between circa 970-955 BC if she is the 'Queen Sheba" who visited Solomon. This history took place 3000 to 3500 years ago and has been written and edited by many propagandists and state archivers, spin doctors etc., who have fiddled with the data ever since. Some people need to get real and understand really ancient history cannot be a precise language like algebra or simultaneous equations. But we are doing our best to answer questions.

Hatshepsut, like Akhenaten, was indeed an apostate. That is she abandoned her former faith for another. If one abandons a false faith and adopts a true faith, apostasy is not a negative thing, logically! However, certain actions must have been regarded as apostasy in these two cases. Akhenaten began worshipping the Sun disk. In Arabia, they worshipped the Moon disk and that is probably where Akhenaten got his idea from unless he modified Hatshepsut's new faith in the Monotheistic God of Israel. Apostasy in kings or queens can be very difficult politically as the British found out when monarchs wanted to change allegiance with the Vatican (either for or against). Akhenaten's apostasy is easy to identify. But so far, or until it was recognised Hatshepsut was the Shebawho saw Solomon and began to believe in the God of Israel rather than the gods of Egypt, no one had been able to identify or explain Hatshepsut's apostasy. Some people think her apostasy was to claim a man's privilege to rule under the Divine Right of Kings and conventional laws of primogeniture whereby only males could rule. While that was indeed a controversial issue, and a problem for many people, queens did reign in other countries. In an Egyptian precedent, one woman ruled for three years or so at the end of the 12th Dynasty. However, it was the dynasty destroyed by the Plagues of Egypt and the destruction of Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea (Exodus) and is not a good precedent to cite anyway.

By recognising she was the queen who visited Solomon in "Punt" in circa 950 BC, we can easily explain Thutmosis III's actions. As part of his obliteration exercise, he rolled debris off the top of the cliff at Deir el-Bahari to bury her temple below. He inadvertently preserved that fabulous temple for everyone to see, especially now that Israel has also resurrected among the nations. The joke is on Thutmosis and on anyone like him who tries to obliterate truth. From this perspective, we see why people want to obliterate any sensible discussion about Hatshepsut on the Internet. They want to stop people hearing that she is the queen whom Jesus praised when the Jewish leaders rejected Him as a sorcerer when in fact He was "the Son of God" as the centurion who saw Him die on the cross said. In the propaganda war against Hatshepsut through the ages, facts such as the year of her birth have become casualties of war.

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Please note there is nothing to suggest Hatshepsut was connected in any way to Sheba. As all of Hatshepsut's work was firmly traditional, with the many gods, and she was mummified, she was therefore not monotheistic.

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Egyptologists are at a complete loss to explain Hatshepsut's apostasy. It seems she was not able to complete her life history at the temple at Deir el-Bahari. By recognising Hatshepsut was "Sheba", although this is a misleading translation of the Hebrew, we can explain the apostasy and her true date of birth, i.e., circa 980 BC not circa 1498 BC. Neither date can be proven, nor disproven but it is vital the public is aware that well-researched positions favour either approximate date. The public can decide for themselves and accept the consequences their decisions yield.

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Hatshepsut is not a good candidate as she was born 500 years too early. We can look at Tutenkhamen's radiocarbon dating (circa 800 BC) which implies she was born 3000 years ago. She was also not monotheistic, as can clearly be seen in her monuments. The words of Solomon could evoke many places in Egypt, even the tomb of Tutankhamun! There is no record anywhere that Hatshepsut had any connection to Ethiopia.

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Radiocarbon results conducted under the sponsorship of the British Museum, based on samples from Tutenkhamen's (or "Tutankhamun") furniture, show him as alive in circa850-800 BC or just 2800 years ago. The conventional or orthodox date for Tutenkhamen is circa 1300 BC or around 3300 years ago. Or, as the above answer implies, his birth "4500 years ago" places him in the year 2500 BC. It is important that people are aware of this wide range of dates for Tutenkhamen-Tutankhamun ("Tut" as in 'Thut-mosis' for short). If Tutenkhamen did live in circa 850-800 BC, then Hatshepsut was born around 100 or more years earlier (e.g., 980 BC) since she was an early 18th dynasty 'pharaoh' (or Pharaoh-ess) and he was the last.

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Experts have used scientific dating techniques to verify the historical chronology of ancient Egypt.

Radiocarbon dating was used to show that the chronology of Egypt's Old, Middle and New Kingdoms is indeed accurate.

The researchers dated seeds found in pharaohs' tombs, including some from the tomb of the King Tutankhamun.

They write in the journal Science that some of the samples are more than 4,500 years old.

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In Egyptology, there is very little that is "scientifically proven". Nor is the "Hatshepsut-Sheba link" proven, scientifically or otherwise. Science is based on observation but much that is observed in Egyptian Archaeology is in fact chaotic. Centuries of tomb robbers, invaders, treasure hunters and well-intentioned but disorganized 'amateur archaeologists', especially in the early 19th century AD, have left much data hard to date.

To illustrate problems with "carbon-dating" the following may be of interest:

Regarding radiocarbon dates for Tutankhamun, Peter James et al, British archaeologists writing in Centuries of Darkness, Jonathan Cape, London, 1991, quoting information from Editor S. Talbott, in Pensee 4:1, 5-19 in 1973/4 reported on the following: Two radiocarbon tests were performed by the British Museum on reeds (BM-642A) and dom-palm nut kernels (BM-642B) from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The results, c. 846 bc and c. 899 bc (standard deviations not available), were never formally published. Their existence came to light only when they were 'leaked' by Mr Bruce Mainwaring, co-ordinator of a radiocarbon project conducted by the Universityof Pennsylvania in conjunction with the British Museum (Talbott 1973/1974).

This WikiAnswers editor has interviewed a British Museum curator about this and is aware of acute embarrassment the Museum faces on this. These matters go well beyond the orbit of the above question about Hatshepsut but they do show that there is a massive amount of data-suppression going on and the identity of Hatshepsut is a central battlefield on which this war is being conducted.

Answer 3

Born circa 1508 B.C., Queen Hatshepsut reigned over Egypt for more than 20 years. The queen died in early February of 1458 B.C.

Answer 4

hatshepsut was born around the year 1500 BC and she died at the year 1482 BC thank you

Answer 5

Hatshepsut was born on c.1508 BC and died in 1458 BC.

Answer 6

She was born in about 1472 B.C

Answer 7

1508 BC