Hatshepsut propaganda part 2

In the first part I talked about Hatshepsut biography, and how she crowned herself as King of upper and Lower Egypt. In this period she started to show androgynous behaviour. In part 2: I will talk about how the androgynous behaviour became part of her propaganda.

Hatshepsut was known as the master of propaganda, most of Hatshepsut propaganda was supported by the high priests of Thebes. Hatshepsut let herself be drawn with all the Pharaoh’s regalia among those was the use of the beard. There aren’t many artefacts of which she is seen as a woman rather than a man.Some people say that the reason for this was that Tuthmosis III erased it form history. Some say that he did this as revenge for her Regency, where he only started to govern effectively at a late period in his life. Nowadays, Egyptologist are getting more convinced that Tuthmosis III erased this propaganda from history (tried) because a female Pharaoh in Egypt “No way” it’s just wasn’t done in the conservative Egypt and so Hatshepsut couldn’t be head of the Country. There a various reasons for this.

Hatshepsut tomb

The find of Hatshepsut tomb is seen as the most important find since the discovery of the final resting place of Tutankhamun. The mummy of the Queen was already found in 1903 in a small tomb in the Valley of Kings in Luxor. Al this time there her identity was unknown. There was still one mummy laying in the tomb, a nurse of Queen Hatshepsut. One story say that the two mummies where switched so that Hatshepsut final resting place was in the tomb or her nurse, which was done to protect her mummy from being destroyed by her successor Tuthmosis III. The reason for this is that Tuthmosis III he tried to destroy everything that reminded him of Hatshepsut.