[SunkenCiv]

It has been suggested that these are signs of Smallpox.

Dorsal view of the mummy of Sitre-In, a wet nurse for Pharaoh Hatshepsut : Paleontological Research Corporation

[smokingfrog]

Borders

Language

Culture

Doc Savage is right again. ;-)

[ClearCase_guy]

An inscription by the succeeding Pharaoh Hatshepsut... in her Underground Temple at Speos Artemidos states that Egypt was "ruined" and "had gone to pieces" before the beginning of her reign.

The whole "Bush's Fault" thing has been around for a long, long time.

[Paperpusher]

The Egyptian official, Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet, mentioned that Thutmose II conducted a campaign in the Sinai against the “shasu” or wanderers.

Jews?

[GeronL]

Interesting.

So... ARE those signs of Smallpox??

Names are hard to pronounce.... although Thutmose I can do. lol. The one with the most thuts.

[D Rider]

Link to article

[PzLdr]

This should be taken with a VERY large grain of salt. Hatshepsut was initially the regent for her stepson, Thutmose III. She usurped his reign and had herself made Pharoah. And a conservative country like Egypt was not accustomed to the idea of a female Pharoah. So this could be her PR/spin/propaganda to justify her seizure of the throne. Dire necessity, the boy’s only 10 [or was it 6], etc.

When she started grooming her daughter for the succession [and Thutmose III was an adult], it gets interesting. Her Vizier [and probable lover], Sennenmut disappears. she dies. Her daughter disappears. And Thutmose III defaces Hatshepsut’s name from any wall, statue, obelisk, etc. he can find it on.

He then goes on to become the greatest military Pharoah in history, which is hard to explain if Egypt was in ruins when his father died, and his stepmother did almost nothing to rebuild the Army, or use it, for some twenty-five years.