Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of Egypt who ruled from approximately 1479 BC to 1458 BC. She was the daughter of Thutmose I and the wife of Thutmose II. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for her stepson Thutmose III. She eventually declared herself pharaoh and ruled Egypt for over 20 years. During her reign, she established trade networks, led a successful expedition to the land of Punt, and oversaw many construction projects including two large obelisks at Karnak temple and her mortuary temple at Deir el Bahari.

1. HATSHEPSUT
I am The Queen
who became a
Pharaoh

2. My family
Thutmose I
Father
Ahmes
Mother
Hatshepsut
Myself
Neferure
Daughter
Mutneferet
Step-mother
Thutmose II
Husband
Iset
Husband’s wife
Thutmose
III
Step-son

3. The Pharaoh line
Thutmose
I
Thutmose
II
Thutmose
III
HATSHEPSUT
Co-regent

4. Why become a Pharaoh?
• My ambition
• Political crisis: another branch of royal
family
My accomplishments
• Establishing trade networks  Wealth
• Mission to the Land of Punt

5. Building projects

6. Obelisks
• Where: At the entrance of the great temple complex at
Karnak
• Height: 100 foot
• Weight: About 350 tons of solid Aswan granite
• How were they brought: Towed along the Nile by 27 ships
manned by 850 oarsmen.
• Duration taken to cut and decorate these two giants in
the quarries of Aswan, move them by boat to Karnak,
and raised them side by side in the courtyard : about 7
months
• One still stands, as the tallest surviving ancient obelisk on
Earth; the other has broken in two and toppled.
• On its base are 32 horizontal lines of hieroglyphs, 8 lines
each side that describe why she had constructed this
obelisk

7. Source: http://www.egyptartsite.com/karbelisk.html

8. Functionality of Obelisks
• a gesture symbolizing the 'djed' pillar, (the Osirian
symbol standing for the backbone of the physical
world and the channel through which the divine spirit
might rise to re-join its source)
• The shadows cast by the pair of unequal obelisks
would enable the astronomer/priests to obtain
precise calendrical and astronomical data relevant to
the given site and its relationship to other key sites
also furnished with obelisks
• to honor their gods and recall the great deeds of their
pharaohs

9. Karnak's Red Chapel / Chapelle
Rouge
• a unique red quartzite bark chapel placed
in the sanctuary of the Amun-Ra temple
• intended as a barque shrine and may have
stood between the two obelisks originally
• to transport the dead to the afterlife and
royal ones would carry the pharaoh on a
journey to become a deity
• constructed entirely of recycled stone
• Much of the chapel was covered in relief
and inscriptions describing the events that
occurred during the reign of Hatshepsut

10. • The chapel consists of two open courts and
is approximately 18 metres long, 6 m
wide, and 5.5 m high. Its upper portion is
made of red quartzite (hence the name);
the foundation is built of black diorite.
Black granite and grey diorite also were
used in its construction. In the center of
the first of three courts contained in the
building, is a basin, probably used to hold a
model of a barque. In the center of the
inner court, two rectangular stone slabs
mark places where statues or barques
might have been placed.

12. The Unfinished Obelisk
• Located in the northern region of the stone
quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan
• Ordered it to be built to celebrate my
sixteenth year in power
• Nearly one third larger than any ancient
Egyptian obelisk ever erected
• The obelisk's creators began to carve it
directly out of bedrock, but cracks
appeared in the granite and the project
was abandoned.
• Offers unusual insights into ancient
Egyptian stone-working techniques

14. Temple at Pakhet
• an underground shrine to Pakhet which
was cut into the cliff rock, located about 2
km south of the Middle Kingdom tombs at
Beni Hasan
• outer portico is rectangular and originally
had eight stone columns arranged in two
rows
• only three of the four columns forming the
facade are still relatively intact and none of
the internal pillars remain
• into the inner grotto all of the artwork had
been chiselled off the walls.

16. Djeser-Djeseru, My Mortuary
temple
• located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari
on the west bank of the Nile near the
Valley of the Kings
• Construction of the temple of Hatshepsut
took fifteen years, between the 7th and
the 22nd years of her reign
• Designed by Senenmut
• The temple is dedicated to Amon and
Hathor, Hatshepsut's claimed parents,
although there are chapels dedicated to
other gods

17. • three layered terraces reaching 97 feet
tall
• consists of three colonnaded
terraces, with two ramps
• On the ground level were sphinxes
(myself represented as a lioness) and
fragrant trees from Punt
• The 2nd terrace is now accessed by a
ramp; originally it would have had stairs
• 3rd terrace consists of two rows of
columns, the front ones taking the
Osirid form (a mummy form);
unfortunately Tuthmosis III damaged
them