This is Pharoah Hatshepsut of Ancient Egypt. She has a lovely smile for someone who’s been dead for thousands of years.



She wasn’t a queen, as some historians are trying to claim. She was a pharaoh and wanted to be referred to as such. She had her statues modeled after the male pharaoh’s statues to state her dominance and authority. She was actually one of the most successful pharaohs in all of Egyptian history and she reigned longer than any other woman in power.



The fact that we know about her at all is bordering on miraculous. The Pharaoh who succeeded her, Tuthmosis III, tried to erase Hatshepsut from history He had her name chiseled off of her monuments, covered the text on her obelisks with stone, and had her statues struck down and defaced. He even made sure her name was left off the list of pharaohs



Can you say “Insecure Misogynist Douchebag kids? Talk about enforcing a Patriarchy.



Hatshepsut’s name was lost for two millennia. Her body was found in a unmarked grave, in the early twentieth century. The depressing part is that, in Egyptian Mythology, if your are forgotten in the living world you don’t exist in the afterlife. So Tuthmosis was trying to kill her even in death. He wanted her forgotten not only by the living, but in fact he wanted to guarantee she wouldn’t be there with him and all the other male Pharoahs, getting her girl cooties all up in their Bro dip.



So spread this information. Get this knowledge back out into the world. Because the more living people know of this awesome incredible woman, (who reportedly wore a fake beard just to piss the men off), the more chance her soul will reach that afterlife, kick in the door of their Dead Pharoah Bros Club, and in her regal clothing and radiant aura proudly shout "Did ya miss me douchebros?”