Egyptian Pharaoh (1473-1458) born and killed in an unknown place, who ruled as pharaoh Egypt in the century. XV a. Ç. She was the daughter of Thutmose I, or Thutmosis I, and Queen Ahmose, and married to her half brother, Thutmose II. As she had no male brothers, after the death of Pharaoh, her illegitimate brother ascended the throne, who adopted the name of Thutmose II and that in order to be legitimized on the throne he was forced to marry her, queen and half sister.
Furthermore, it was customary for pharaohs to marry sisters, or other family members, in order to preserve the purity of the caste. A widow after the death of her husband, possibly poisoned, her closest heir, Thutmose III, was only five years old and she assumed the throne. At first as regent, she gradually took full control of power.
It is said that she was always in love with the great sculptor and architect Senmut, being his lover since the times of marriage, and he became her most trusted man, helping her to govern like a true Pharaoh. It is even mentioned that he built in praise of his beloved the most beautiful monument in the Valley of the Queens, the temple of Dier-el-Bahari, where her name can be read in a rare and beautiful inscription.
She became the first ruler to wear the Double Crown, meaning to assume sovereignty over the two regions of Upper and Lower Egypt, while she believed she had the power of deity and royalty. As Pharaoh sought pacification and turned his people back to peaceful activities, such as building great monuments and maintenance of trade routes with the outside, closed during the domain of Hyksos.
During her reign, she valued artistic expression, produced new types of sculpture and began the practice of writing funerary texts on papyrus, the Book of the Dead. She carried out commercial expeditions to the land of Punt, a country located on the coast of Africa, reached by the Red Sea, probably north of Somalia. Because of his strong personality and competence, he has achieved the feat of controlling for over 15 years, the great Thutmose III, the future creator of the Egyptian empire, his stepson and nephew and true heir of the throne.
Finally (1458), the power of women in a society totally dominated by men, succumbed to the intelligence, vision and energy of the nephew, leaving in the history of ancient Egypt the indelible record of the passage of an extraordinarily important character, despite Thutmosis III, during his reign, to have erased several traces of its conductor and its main collaborator, Senmut, such as busts, frescoes and interrupted some of the works of the predecessor.
Due to her feminine condition, one of the most famous queens of Egypt, she was also depicted without breasts and with beards in the paintings and statues erected in her honor. Like her mother, only one of her daughters has survived adulthood: Neferure.
Although she built a temple with a burial chamber in the Valley of Queens, the most powerful of the Egyptian rulers was buried in the Valley of the Kings, but there is still no consensus on finding her. mummy.
Source: Biographies - Academic Unit of Civil Engineering / UFCG
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
Order M - Biography - Brazil School