Tyldesley, Joyce

Drawn from archaeological and historical evidence, provides a biographical sketch of the female pharaoh Hatchepsut and her twenty year reign of eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt. Includes black-and-white photographs and line drawings.

During the dynastic period (3000 BC -- 332 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus was intrigued to observe, Egyptian women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, unrivalled, indeed, by women in Europe until the late nineteenth century.

Bu combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Tyldesley's groundbreaking biography provides the reader with an intriguing insight into life within the Theban royal family of early 18th Dynasty Egypt.

Unwrap the ancient secrets of the mummie's tombs.