Essay
The Queens of Egypt: The complexities of female rule in the First through the Nineteenth Dynasty
UNKNOWN
10/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1101
Abstract
Nefertiti and Hatshepsut are well-known Egyptian queens, but few people are familiar with other note-worthy queens like Sobekneferu or Tausret. More than eleven women may have ruled Egypt after the founding ofthe ftrst dynasty in roughly 3000 BeE; and while there are numerous works written about a few famous queens, there is no single work examining female queens as a group in ancient Egypt. Despite this lack of comprehensive examination, there exists within Egyptology a belief that women have only ruled Egypt at the end of dynasties in the absence of male candidates in an attempt to preserve the domination of a dying kinship group. This belief is the result of an incomplete understanding of female rule in Egypt, and the examination of the rule of eleven Egyptian queens reveals that female succession to the Egyptian throne was based on more than just a simple attempt to extend a dynasty.
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- Title
- The Queens of Egypt: The complexities of female rule in the First through the Nineteenth Dynasty
- Creators
- Rachel V. Hamar (Author)
- Contributors
- Kathy Meyer (Supervisor)
- Academic Unit
- Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award
- Series
- UNKNOWN
- Identifiers
- 99900502834501842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Essay