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The erasures were sporadic and haphazard, with only the more visible and accessible images of Hatshepsut being removed ; had it been more complete, we would not now have so many images of Hatshepsut.

Thutmose III may have died before these changes were finished and it may be that he never intended a total obliteration of her memory.

In fact, we have no evidence to support the assumption that Thutmose hated or resented Hatshepsut during her lifetime.

Had that been true, as head of the army, in a position given to him by Hatshepsut ( who was clearly not worried about her co-regent's loyalty ), he surely could have led a successful coup, but he made no attempt to challenge her authority during her reign and, her accomplishments and images remained featured on all of the public buildings she built for twenty years after her death.