2282–2303 AM · ≈ 1479 BCE — 1458 BCE · world history
Hatshepsut
A woman assumes the full title of pharaoh and rules Egypt for more than twenty years.
The widow of Thutmose II becomes regent for her young stepson, then is crowned in her own right and has herself depicted in male dress with the ceremonial beard — as the canon of royal images required. Her reign passes almost without war: she sends a sea expedition to the land of Punt for incense, restores temples, and builds at Deir el-Bahri a terraced temple cut into the cliff. After her death her name and images are chiselled off the walls in places, probably to tidy the count of kings. Historians only learned of her in the nineteenth century.