Among the building projects undertaken by this monarch were two enormous obelisks, then the largest in the world and still standing in the Red Chamber at Karnak. Ruling under the regnal name Maatkare and clearly attempting to emulate the earlier Sobekneferu, this monarch also sent an expedition to Punt. While archaeologists have recently begun to believe that the erasing of names long blamed on th
Among the building projects undertaken by this monarch were two enormous obelisks, then the largest in the world and still standing in the Red Chamber at Karnak. Ruling under the regnal name Maatkare and clearly attempting to emulate the earlier Sobekneferu, this monarch also sent an expedition to Punt. While archaeologists have recently begun to believe that the erasing of names long blamed on the next ruler actually came much later, someone was clearly offended by such actions as this ruler's assumption of the title "Pharoah" and the wearing of the ceremonial false beard. For 10 points name this successor of Thutmose I, the most powerful woman to rule Egypt before Cleopatra.
Among the building projects undertaken by this monarch were two enormous obelisks, then the largest in the world and still standing in the Red Chamber at Karnak.
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