Hatshepsut

American

[hat-shep-soot] / hætˈʃɛp sut /

Also Hatshepset

noun

1495–75 b.c., queen of Egypt.

Hatshepsut British

/ hætˈʃɛpsuːt /

noun

queen of Egypt of the l8th dynasty (?1512–1482 _bc ). She built a great mortuary temple at Deir el Bahri near Thebes

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Highlights include the larger-than-life granite kneeling statue of Queen Hatshepsut from her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri and a mummified crocodile that measures over eight feet long.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Those who know history may see shades of Hatshepsut, the woman pharaoh, in that look.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024

Meanwhile Hatshepsut, one of Egypt's historical female leaders, is now playable.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

This granite statue of a kneeling Pharaoh Hatshepsut, carved in the fifteenth century BCE and originally painted, measures just over twenty-seven inches high.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

There is only one instance of a Sumerian woman ascending the throne, like Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

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