LBGTQ: Well-Known Pharaoh Of Egypt

The history of LGBTQ* is not a brand new topic in the history. Actually, there are many of LGBTQ* histories are recorded all way the beginning of the creation of humans, which the today’s special History Channel documentary focusing on LBGTQ* topics. I will be speaking about Hatshepsut, who is one of the well-known Pharaoh of Egypt who was portrayed in the pictures as a male.

Hatshepsut was a Queen in Egypt, born in about 1507 BC. She is eldest and only surviving daughter of King Thutmose I and his chief (main) wife, Ahmose. Among to the customs, she married to her half-brother which they had a daughter together. Her husband eventually died at young age, leaving an heir, his son with his minor wife, Thutmose III. Thutmose was too young to

Many historians speculated that he is ashamed to the fact that she’s a female who dressed like a Pharaoh to justify her power instead of letting him be a king when he was old enough. It shows how powerful Hatshepsut was that by dressing like a man caused some controversy in later generation. Interestingly, Hatshepsut actually stated before her death how much she worried at the fact how she will be even be remembered in the history. It seems like she’s very aware how her position as a female Pharaoh is threatened.

“It was later discovered that even Hatshepsut worried about how she, a female pharaoh, would be remembered, or even if she’d be remembered at all; one of her obelisks at Karnak containing the following (translated) text: “Now my heart turns this way and that, as I think what the people will say. Those who see my monuments in years to come, and who shall speak of what I have done.” (Stone, 2015)

Fortunately for Hatshepsut, not everything was destroyed by her stepson’s orders. Her name was mentioned in forgotten walls of Dear el-Bahri, which British archeologists discovered it in 1822 which the wall contains the pictures of her as a