Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 2: Queen Hatshepsut (IA2)

• Ancient History Encyclopedia: Hatshepsut

  This weblink includes a visual timeline.
• Ancient History Encyclopedia: The Temple of Hatshepsut
• Ancient History Encyclopedia - Queen Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun, Pharaoh of Egypt
• History.com: Hatshepsut
• Live Science - Hatshepsut: First Female Pharaoh
• BBC: Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis: a royal feud?

  After her death, Pharoah Hatshepsut vanished from Egyptian history. Was her stepson, Tuthmosis III, to blame?

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hatshepsut - From Queen to Pharaoh
  This MET publication is a book, consisting of a collection of essays by leading Egyptologists.
  Click on 'Download pdf'. It may take a little time to download.

• History Extra: Hatshepsut

  This article appeared in BBC History Magazine.

Perseus Tufts

Collection of Egyptian Texts from St Andrew's University

Ancient Egypt - Ancient History Sourcebook

British Museum

Egyptian Index - Bluffton University

List of Ancient Egyptian Artefacts

Digital Karnak - UCLA

Vatican Museum - Gregorian Egyptian Museum

ETANA

*credit to History Skills website for collating these primary sources

You might like to find sources on the following aspects of Hatshepsut's reign:

Representations of her gender

Her building program

Her military initiatives

Her foreign policy and trade initiatives

TASK: Investigate an aspect of Assyria from Tiglath Pileser III to the fall of the Empire. Present your findings in an independent source investigation of 1500–2000 words.

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Hatshepsut launched an extensive building program, repairing the damage wrought by the invading Hyksos and building magnificent temples. She renovated her father's hall in the Temple of Karnak, erecting four great obelisks nearly 100 feet (30m) tall, and added a chapel.

• Ancient History Encyclopedia: The Temple of Hatshepsut

• Hatshepsut - A Female King of Egypt and Her Architecture 

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