Where did hatshepsut lived?

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Queen Hatshepsut lived in Egypt between 1473-1458 according to conventional dating systems.

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On the assumptions that Hatshepsut ("The Sign of the Sheba of the south = Egypt and Ethiopia") lived at the time of Solomon and that Tutenkhamen, the last pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, lived at the time of Ahab of Israel, Hatshepsut was queen of Egyptians and Ethiopians in circa 970-940 BC.

Carbon-dating data for Tutenkhamen showed results for 850-800 BC. Merneptah Meriamen Baenra Hotephir-maat, son of Ramesses II said "Israel's Seed is destroyed; the land razed to the ground". That statement could only be true of Israel after Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Israel's towns and cities in 586 BC. Thus Merneptah and Ramesses II had to be 7th and 6th century BC kings not 13th century BC kings. Many other problems with current dating systems and Egyptian chronology are emerging. Privately, Egyptologists are acknowledging these major errors but they are also not sure what to do about the problem because there are indeed difficulties in changing all the dates in every book or encyclopedia ever written. Although where Hatshepsut lived (Thebes) is not in dispute, when she lived is indeed in much dispute.

Thus people need to be aware of the problems in modern Egyptology. In the meantime it is important to consider all the various answers that are possible and to note both the conventional date and other dates.

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Please view the link below, which is on the subject of the radiocarbon dating of Tutankhamun. It shows him to follow traditional chronology.

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The above-mentioned links do not appear because WikiAnswers does not allow them to be used.

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 University of 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. Furthermore, this editor attended a private presentation by Pennsylvania University Antarctic scientists who found massive fields of meteorites from the Moon and Mars on the South polar plateaux - on top of the ice instead of underneath where they were supposed to be. This matter raises huge questions about Antarctic and cosmological science which were also subsequently suppressed by refusing permission for the university to continue its explorations in Antarctica. In fact, this matter is what lies behind Dan Brown's Deception Point written after his famous Da Vinci Code. 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.

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The links work on my computer. Anyway, go to the BBC website, and the carbon dating results are there. I'll quote them;

"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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Carbon dating of wheat seeds at Tel Beth She'an, Israel, supposedly prove the forts of Sety I and Ramesses III date to circa the 13th and 12th centuries BC. However, their forts lie above that of King Saul (1000 BC).

Radio-metric techniques, used to supposedly "prove" the orthodox chronology of ancient Egyptian kings and dynasties, are widely agreed to be ineffectual because most samples are contaminated with rare exceptions such as material found in Tutenkhamen's tomb. In some cases the date might be quite accurate but one would not really know because it is almost impossible to isolate the manner or degree of contamination (if any in reality). Thus traditional techniques such as ceramic sequencing and triangulation of textual or written data (hieroglyphs, scrolls etc.,) are still the best tools to work with. At the end of the process, a radio-metric result may have some residual validity but not when, for example, a date contradicted a text such as Merneptah's "Israel's seed is destroyed; the land razed (shaved) to the ground" supposedly in 1210 BC when the same event described in Israel's history was in 586 BC. Merneptah was Ramesses II's son. Thus Ramesses II would have to be a 7th century BC king despite what any radio-metric result would suggest. Far better to rely on the texts than on contaminated samples subjected to 'chemical analysis'.

However, as experience has shown, the use of textual data such as Biblical material must be done wisely and carefully without jumping to too hasty conclusions as happened with the interpretation of Exodus 1:11.

Answer 2

Queen Hatshepsut lived in Egypt.