Tag: Hatshepsut
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Queen Hatshepsut
Image – Sphinx of Hatshepsut Original Location: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY I fell in love with Hatshepsut (hat-chep-soot) while reading the book The Woman Who Would Be King by UCLA Professor and Egyptologist Kara Cooney. Ms. Cooney paints an amazing portrait of life in…
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Ancient Egypt
To be honest, I can’t remember when my curiosity and interest in Egypt began. One of my first lessons in Egypt came from a ballet classmate. Her name was Allison, and she was obsessed with ancient Egypt. We were in ballet together for several years when we were young. When I spent the night at…
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