The Greatest Female Pharaoh (TRIH ep 299)
1,470 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the life, career and legacy of the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut. They place her in the wider context of Egypt's recovery from the Hyksos period and the consolidation of the New Kingdom, outlining key predecessors and successors (Thutmose I–III) and the royal household dynamics that allowed Hatshepsut to rise from regent to proclaimed pharaoh. The conversation covers her claims to divine birth by Amun-Ra, adoption of pharaonic symbols (crowns, fal...
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Around 1470 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation rises (1600 BCE)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Eruption of Thera (1600 BCE)
- Oracle bone script in use (1250 BCE)