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Hatshepsutthe daughter of a general who usurped Egypts throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynastywas born into a privileged position in the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her fathers family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut shrewdly operated the levers of power to emerge as Egypts second female pharaoh.
Hatshepsut successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypts most prolific building periods. Scholars have long speculated as to why her monuments were destroyed within a few decades of her death, all but erasing evidence of her unprecedented rule. Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated powerand why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power.

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Copyright 2014 by Kara Cooney All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1
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Copyright 2014 by Kara Cooney

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

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CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cooney, Kara.
The woman who would be king / Kara Cooney. First edition.
pages cm
1. Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt. 2. QueensEgyptBiography. 3. PharaohsBiography. 4. EgyptHistoryEighteenth dynasty, ca. 15701320 B.C. 5. EgyptKings and rulersBiography. I. Title.
DT87.15.C66 2014
932.014092dc23

2014000243

ISBN 978-0-307-95676-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-307-95678-1

Map copyright 2014 by David Cain
Illustration on by Deborah Shieh
Jacket design by Chris Brand
Jacket photography by Sam Weber

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For Neil, with whom I have walked
through so many fires.

And for Julian, whose happiness
doesnt yet make him cry.

CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY
New Kingdom15391077 BCE
Eighteenth Dynasty15391292 BCE

Ahmose I (Nebpehtyre)

15391515 BCE

Amenhotep I (Djeserkare)

15141494 BCE

Thutmose I (Aakheperkare)

14931483 BCE

Thutmose II (Aakheperenre)

14821480 BCE

Thutmose III (Menkheperre/Menkheperkare)

14791460 BCE

Hatshepsut (Maatkare)

14721458 BCE

Thutmose III (Menkheperre)

14601425 BCE

Amenhotep II (Aakheperure)

14251400 BCE

Thutmose IV (Menkheperure)

14001390 BCE

Amenhotep III (Nebmaatre)

13901353 BCE

Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (Neferkheperure)

13531336 BCE

Smenkhkare/Neferneferuaten

13361334 BCE

Tutankhaten/Tutankhamen (Nebkheperure)

?1324 BCE

Itnetjer Ay (Kheperkheperure)

13231320 BCE

Horemheb (Djeserkheperure)

13191292 BCE
Nineteenth Dynasty12921191 BCE

Ramses I (Menpehtyre)

12921291 BCE

Seti I (Menmaatre)

12901279 BCE

Ramses II (Usermaatre setepenre)

12791213 BCE

Merneptah (Baenre)

12131203 BCE

Seti II (Userkheperure)

12021198 BCE

Amenmesses (Menmire)

12021200 BCE

Siptah (Akhenre)

11971193 BCE

Tawosret (Sitre merytamen)

11921191 BCE
Twentieth Dynasty11901077 BCE

Setnakht (Userkhaure)

11901188 BCE

Ramses III (Usermaatre meryamen)

11871157 BCE

Ramses IV (Heqamaatre setepenamen)

11561150 BCE

Ramses V (Usermaatre sekheperenre)

11491146 BCE

Ramses VI (Nebmaatre meryamen)

11451139 BCE

Ramses VII (Usermaatre setepenre meryamen)

11381131 BCE

Ramses VIII (Usermaatre akhenamen)

1130 BCE

Ramses IX (Neferkare setepenre)

11291111 BCE

Ramses X (Khepermaatre setepenre)

11101107 BCE

Ramses XI (Menmaatre setepenptah)

11061077 BCE

(Based on Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, and David A. Warburton, eds., Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Handbook of Oriental Studies, sec. 1, The Near and Middle East [Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006].)

AUTHORS NOTE Certainty plays little role in this history of Hatshepsut The - photo 3
AUTHORS NOTE

Certainty plays little role in this history of Hatshepsut. The nature of the information passed down to us is uneven, and because so many of her monuments were destroyed, the jumble of perceptions we are left with are from other people, many of whom lived millennia after her death. I have had to break many rules of my Egyptological training in order to resurrect and reanimate Hatshepsuts intentions, ambitions, and disappointments, by engaging in conjecture and speculation, and creating untestable hypotheses as I attempt to fill out her character and decision-making processes (even though I document my sources and accentuate my uncertainties). Any supposition on my part is warranted, I believe, because Hatshepsut remains an important example of humanitys ambivalent perception of female authority. Even in the absence of exact historical details and reasons behind Hatshepsuts actions, I can still track her rise to power by following the clues left behind by herself, other kings, courtiers, officials, and priests, thus filling out the circumstances of her lifes journey as I go.

I have decided to forgo any long-winded analysis of architectural history, reliefs, statuary, text, and genealogy, instead focusing solely on Hatshepsuts narrative; you will find discussions of topics tangential to the main story in the notes. I have also eschewed reconstructions of Hatshepsuts ambitious building program, because the extensive evidence of it already fills many volumes. (Indeed, Hatshepsuts impressive architectural agenda has lured historians into creating a narrative of objects and buildings in lieu of a history of Hatshepsut herself.) This book is about a woman of antiquity and her interactions with Egyptian systems of government and power players, her decisions, her ambitions, her desperation, her triumphs, and her defeats. As I follow Hatshepsuts story from her ancestral beginnings to her bitter end, I will watch what she did and how she did it, within the context of her times, and present my hypotheses explaining her motivations and thought processes.

Many historians will no doubt accuse me of fantasy: inventing emotions and feelings for which I have no evidence. And they will be right. As I try to get at the human core of Hatshepsut, I will put many ideas and assumptions on the page; this is the best way for me to reconstruct her decision-making process. My conjectures, founded on twenty years of Egyptological research, are bounded and informed. What I say about Hatshepsuts emotions may not be right, but when I engage in conjecture, I do my best to qualify the statement, or to offer alternatives, or to clarify any uncertainty in my writing. The inexactitude remains, however, as is the case with any historical study of the ancient world.

This book is a kind of pause for me, something completely different from my previous Egyptological research dealing with funerary data sets and coffin studies. I have used all my skills as a researcher, but I have also allowed myself to think out loud, to infer and imagine, in a way I would not do in my other work. This book finds its origins in my intimate (and strange even to myself) connection to the ancient world, and I have to thank the countless scholars who share the same obsession with Egypts pastgenerations of archaeologists who uncovered Hatshepsuts remnants in the dirt, philologists who translated and analyzed her texts, art historians who pieced together broken statues and found traces of her relief erased by chisels. They have paved the way for this biographical discussion of Hatshepsuts relevance.

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