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This female pharaoh ruled in Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and built a mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

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Your new ahaHatshepsut

Hatshepsut ruled as pharaoh during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Earlier women had also exercised royal authority in Egypt. Source: Hatshepsut ↗

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