Tausret : forgotten queen and pharaoh of Egypt

Tausret : forgotten queen and pharaoh of Egypt / edited by Richard H. Wilkinson.

One of only a few women who ruled ancient Egypt as a king during its thousands of years of history, Tausret was the last pharaoh of the 19th dynasty (c.1200 bce), the last ruling descendent of Ramesses the Great, and one of only two female monarchs buried in Egypt's renowned Valley of the Kings...

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Other Authors: Wilkinson, Richard H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Tausert, > Queen, consort of Seti II, King of Egypt, > active approximately 1187 B.C.-1185 B.C.
Tausert, > Queen, consort of Seti II, King of Egypt, > active approximately 1187 B.C.-1185 B.C. > Tomb.
Tausert, > Queen, consort of Seti II, King of Egypt, > active approximately 1187 B.C.-1185 B.C. > Monuments.
To 332 B.C.
Queens > Egypt > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Ancient > Egypt.
Antiquities
Monuments
Queens
Tombs
Egypt > History > To 332 B.C.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt
History
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • The queen who would be king / Richard H. Wilkinson
  • Foremost of women : the female pharaohs of ancient Egypt / Joyce Tyldesley
  • Female Horus : the life and reign of Tausret / Gae Callender
  • Forgotten treasures : Tausret as seen in her monuments / Catharine Roehrig
  • A queen in a valley of kings : the tomb of Tausret / Hartwig Altenmüller
  • Beautiful in Thebes : the memorial temple of Tausret / Richard H. Wilkinson.

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