Because after the death of the pharaoh her husband, and with her son still much too young to take the reigns, someone needed to govern in the meantime, and Hatshepsut was self-assured enough to think it could easily be her.
The pharaoh that ascended after Hatshepsut was her nephew Thutmose III.
Hatshepsut died in 1482B.C. she was the best known and powerful pharaoh of Egypt.
If Sam Brownback can be a governor, why shouldn't Hatshepsut have been a pharaoh?
Hatshepsut was a woman. She was the first woman to assume the full powers of a pharaoh.
Pharaoh of Egypt.
She was a pharaoh. She was the King of Egypt after her brother.
Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
Hatshepsut was the woman who ruled as Pharaoh of Egypt between 1473-1458 BC. (Cleopatra was Pharaoh but did not rule as a man)
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