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Mona Lee Clark
Hatshepsut
Often depicted on frescoes as a man, she was the first female Pharaoh of Egypt. Radical, she built temples, obelisks, sphinxes, statues, to guard pyramid tombs.
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In Aswan, one hundred tombs hold mummies whose face masks insured a successful afterlife.
Hatshepsut slurred her gender, to be accepted.