Senenmut first enters the historical record on a national level as the " Steward of the God's Wife " ( Hatshepsut ) and " Steward of the King's Daughter " ( Neferure ).

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Akhenaten: Son Of The Sun is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra.

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Akhenaten: Son of the Sun and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra.

Chronologically, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun takes place first.

This interpretation makes sense, as the inscription bears the words “ The Good God, Lady of the Two Lands, Daughter of Re, Hatshepsut ,” and the pharaoh is pictured making offerings to Amun.

Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun and Akhenaten: Son of the Sun.

At this point Amun places the ankh, a symbol of life, to Ahmose's nose, and Hatshepsut is conceived by Ahmose.

The Oracle of Amun proclaimed that it was the will of Amun that Hatshepsut be pharaoh, further strengthening her position.

In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess ; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC ( circa 2160 BC ).

Hatshepsut had scenes created showing how the god Amun approached her mother, Ahmose, and how she ( Hatshepsut ) was of divine birth.

Amun proceeds to the god Khnum and instructs him to create Hatshepsut.

At this time the high priests of the god Amun, brought to prominence by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut about a century before, are rich and powerful enough to challenge a king ...

Just left of the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III is the Temple of Amun, ( Ancient Egyptian: Djeser Set ) dating to the 18th Dynasty, built by Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

God's Wife of Amun, a title for a similar office of the high priestess, originated as a title held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun during the reign of Hatshepsut and continued as an important office while the capital of Egypt remained in Thebes.

Her daughter, Neferure, took her place in many functions that required a royal queen serving as the Great Royal Wife and, as God's Wife of Amun in the temple, while Thutmose III remained as co-regent to Hatshepsut.

* TT39-Puimre, Second Prophet of Amun, from the tie of Hatshepsut

* TT179-Nebamon, Scribe, Counter of grain in the granary of divine offerings of Amun, from the time of Hatshepsut

During the reign of Hatshepsut, the Red Chapel was the prominent barque shrine of Amun at Karnak.

During the ceremony, in the presence of this anonymous ruler, an oracle speaking the words of Amun makes the announcement that Hatshepsut is to become the pharaoh.

Yet another shows the God ’ s Wife, as chief priestess, leading a group of male priests to the temple pool to be purified and then following Hatshepsut into the shrine in which she performed sacred rites in front of the statue of Amun.

Today Egyptologists generally agree that Hatshepsut assumed the position of pharaoh and the length of her reign usually is given as twenty-two years, since she was assigned a reign of twenty-one years and nine months by the third-century BCE historian, Manetho, who had access to many historical records that now are lost.

Queen Sobekneferu of the twelfth dynasty is known to have assumed formal power as ruler of " Upper and Lower Egypt " three centuries earlier than Hatshepsut.

Amenhotep I, also preceding Hatshepsut in the eighteenth dynasty, probably came to power while a young child and his mother, Ahmose-Nefertari, is thought to have been a regent for him.

Another jar from the same tomb — which was discovered in situ by a 1935 – 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition on a hillside near Thebes — was stamped with the seal of the ' God's Wife Hatshepsut ' while two jars bore the seal of ‘ The Good Goddess Maatkare ’</ ref > The dating of the amphorae, " sealed into the burial chamber by the debris from Senenmut's own tomb ," is undisputed which means that Hatshepsut was acknowledged as the king of Egypt by Year 7 of her reign.

It is reported that Hatshepsut had these trees planted in the courts of her Deir el Bahri mortuary temple complex.

Although many Egyptologists have claimed that her foreign policy was mainly peaceful, there is evidence that Hatshepsut led successful military campaigns in Nubia, the Levant, and Syria early in her career.

During her reign, so much statuary was produced that almost every major museum in the world has Hatshepsut statuary among their collections ; for instance, the Hatshepsut Room in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicated solely to some of these pieces.

Another one of her great accomplishments is the Hatshepsut needle ( also known as the granite obelisks ).

Hatshepsut is not unique, however, in taking the title of king.

While Hatshepsut was depicted in official art wearing regalia of a pharaoh, such as the false beard that male pharaohs also wore, it is most unlikely that she ever wore such ceremonial decorations, just as it is unlikely that the male pharaohs did.

One of the most famous examples of the legends about Hatshepsut is a myth about her birth.

Khnum, the god who forms the bodies of human children, is then instructed to create a body and ka, or corporal presence / life force, for Hatshepsut.

Besides what was recovered from KV20 during Howard Carter's clearance of the tomb in 1903, other funerary furniture belonging to Hatshepsut has been found elsewhere, including a lioness " throne " ( bedstead is a better description ), a senet game board with carved lioness-headed, red-jasper game pieces bearing her pharaonic title, a signet ring, and a partial shabti figurine bearing her name.

While it is clear that much of this rewriting of Hatshepsut's history occurred only during the close of Thutmose III's reign, it is not clear why it happened, other than the typical pattern of self-promotion that existed among the pharaohs and their administrators, or perhaps saving money by not building new monuments for the burial of Thutmose III and instead, using the grand structures built by Hatshepsut.

Writers such as Joyce Tyldesley hypothesized that it is possible that Thutmose III, lacking any sinister motivation, may have decided toward the end of his life, to relegate Hatshepsut to her expected place as the regent — which was the traditional role of powerful women in Egypt's court as the example of Queen Ahhotep attests — rather than king.

* c. 1473 BC – 1458 BC – Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahri is built.

Modern historians rely on a comparison of inscriptions and chronological considerations to reconstruct the chronology of Thutmose III, and there is unanimity among Egyptologists that he counted as his own years the 21 years that Hatshepsut was on the throne, even though no inscription has ever been found explicitly stating this fact.

It is thought that Amenhotep III removed most signs of Hatshepsut, while taking credit for the projects she had built.

In the relief shown to the right, which is on the wall of the Hatshepsut Temple at Luxor, there are two images of Wadjet: one of her as the uraeus sun disk with her head through an ankh and another where she precedes a Horus hawk wearing the double crown of united Egypt, representing the pharaoh whom she protects.

An ancient and alternative way in which women managed to rise to power, especially without displacing the direct male line descendants of the first monarchs, is the historical Consortium or Coregency between husband and wife or other relatives, the most notable of these being the cases of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, as well as the Ptolemaic Dynasty's Kings and Queens.