![]() ![]() While Cooney’s writing is backed by twenty years as a professional Egyptologist, emotion drives her narrative. ![]() Still, hoping to preserve her father’s dynasty, she took on regency alongside the infant son of a rival wife. No one expected her to be king there was no precedent for her actions. She later became the king herself-yes, the king, not queen, as the ancient Egyptian tongue contained no word for a female monarch. A princess of sorts, she was the daughter of her father, the king, the sister and wife of her brother, the king. Kara Cooney uses the mortar of experience and imagination to repair the fragmented story of one of ancient Egypt’s few female monarchs in The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt. Still they speak, despite abuses from tomb robbers, image-erasing successive kings, and ravages of time. A thousand fractured monuments litter Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. ![]()
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