Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut Many historians that it is possible to categorize the advancements and the rise and fall of the Egyptian kingdom through its progression through the Bronze age. The Old kingdom which was formed after the union of upper and lower Egypt approximately 3,000 BC, saw the erection of the the great pyramids of Gizeh and Kafre, and the reign of some of the first great Pharaoh’s Khufu and Snefru this age is also called by some the Early bronze age. The Middle kingdom (dynasties XI-XIV) picks up were the old left off and we see the movement of royal burial from great pyramids to rock cut tombs around 2040 BC, this can also be classified as the Middle Bronze Age. This classification continues until after the rule of Akhenaton, Ramses II and Tutankhamen which signifies the end of the New Kingdom and the beginning of the late period and Iron age approximately 1070 BC. . During the rise and fall of this empire their is one female monarch who stood supreme. Queen Hatshepsut (1473-1458 bc) is recognized hatshepsut, age, kingdom, great, bc, after, thutmose, rise, pharaoh, bronze, two, time, through, pyramids, portrayed, portraits, old, monarch, middle, iii, ii, however, herself, first, female, fall, egypt, death, approximately, years, xi-xiv, woman, whose, very, upper