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(Sort of) The Story
15. (Sort of) Off Topic: Hatshepsut, The Erased Pharaoh Queen
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Janey and Max
This week, Max fascinates us with the history of a Pharaoh almost lost to history-- Hatshepsut. (And at the end, Janey reads us smut!) Enjoy!
Sources:
- “The Queen Who Would Be King” by Elizabeth B. Wilson for Smithsonian Magazine
- “Hatshepsut” for History.com
- “Who was Hatshepsut?” by Kristin Baird Rattini for National Geographic
- “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh” exhibition at the Met
- “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh” by Catharine Roehrig, Renee Dreyfus, and Cathleen Keller for the Met exhibition
- Inscriptions by Hatshepsut on obelisks at Karnak
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