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Hatshepsut and hieroglyphics
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Texas, USA (FWST): With her scandalous back story of incest, usurpation and disappearance, you'd think that Hatshepsut would be one of the best-known Egyptian monarchs. Instead, she was lost for more than 3,000 years. Her stepson Thutmose III saw to that -- he struck her name from official records, destroyed her temples and defaced her statues. Her cultural achievements that influenced successive dynasties were smashed into rubble, and the sands of millennia eventually buried all traces that she or they had ever existed.
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