Hatshepsut Vs Cleopatra

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It wasn’t until 2007, that an archaeologist named, Howard Carter, discovered Hatshepsut mummy in a nearby tomb. A CT scan of her remains revealed that she died in her 50’s, from bone cancer, and suffered from diabetes, and arthritis.
As one of the few female pharaohs, in Egyptian history. Hatshepsut’s reign seemed to be more powerful than Cleopatra. In the era of her time, significant information about how females were viewed in ruling class, of ancient Egypt. Her period of rule was based on military tactics, campaigns, construction of an empire of her family tree, restoration of buildings around her empire. This legacy is shown and viewed, in the building of her mortuary temple at Dier el Bahari. Hatshepsut, was an example of the first female

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