OSHER 445 - Life and Times of Egypt's Foremost Uppity Woman

Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is regarded as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty and living up to her name, which means "Foremost of Noble Ladies." She was the daughter of a pharaoh, married a pharaoh, and was the mother of a pharaoh-to-be when she became regent for her young son. Her son's coming of age was not enough to persuade her to relinquish the regency. Explore the story of their struggle for power and the background of an international age in which the Mesopotamians, HIttites, Mycenaeans, proto-Palestinians, and Ethiopians exchanged diplomatic letters, gifts, and sometimes not-so-diplomatic arrows