Hatshepsut (lived 15th Century BC), was an Egyptian ruler of the 18th Dynasty, daughter of Thutmose I. She married her half brother, Thutmose II, with whom she co-ruled Egypt until his death in 1479 BC. His successor, Thutmose III, a son by a concubine, was a child at the time and was married to Hatshepsut’s daughter by Thutmose II. In 1473, however, she had herself crowned as pharaoh, and reigned in her own right until 1458. Her nominal coruler was Thutmose III, who ruled alone after her death. Hatshepsut built a great temple at Dayr al Bahri near Thebes, approached by a lane of sphinxes and huge, colonnaded terraces. A second wife of Thutmose III, named Meryetre Hatshepsut but not related to the queen, was the mother of the next pharaoh, Amenhotep II (reigned 1427-1401 BC).
