This Woman Ruled the Ancient World for 20 Years You've Never Heard Her Name

There is a pharaoh you have never heard of. Not because they were obscure — because someone erased them. Deliberately. Methodically. Stone by stone, cartouche by cartouche. Her name was Hatshepsut. She ruled Egypt for twenty years, dispatched trade expeditions to the edges of the known world, built one of the most architecturally sophisticated temples in the ancient world, and erected obelisks that still stand today. She was one of the most successful pharaohs in Egyptian history. And then, approximately twenty years after her death, someone went through every temple and monument in Egypt and chiseled her out of the record. For three thousand years, it worked. This is the story of who she was, what she built, and why someone needed so badly for her not to exist. 0:00 — The pharaoh who was erased 1:14 — What she was not supposed to be 1:56 — How she took power 2:51 — How did she pull it off? 3:57 — She did not fight the rules 4:38 — And then she went to work 4:48 — The expedition to Punt 5:33 — The obelisks at Karnak 6:28 — Deir el-Bahari 7:00 — Senenmut 7:45 — The erasure begins 9:12 — The question that won't leave me 9:26 — Why Thutmose waited 20 years 9:46 — Her success was the threat Arcana Historia animates the civilizations, discoveries, and historical truths that were buried, erased, or simply never put in your textbooks. SOURCES: — Tyldesley, Joyce. Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh (1998) — Roehrig, Catharine H. (ed.) Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005) — Dorman, Peter F. The Monuments of Senenmut (1988) #history #ancienthistory #hatshepsut #ancientegypt #arcanahistoria #untoldhistory #historyfacts #hiddenhistory #egyptianhistory #womenhistory