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Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, La Reine Mysterieuse (the Mysterious Queen) Hatshepsut, Pygmalion, Paris, 2002, 504p. The last book of the famous French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt is dedicated to a not yet very well-known royal person of the Pharaonic times: Maatkare Hatshepsut, the First Queen of the World History. The importance of Hatshepsut lies above all in the fact that, referring to her, we use the term “queen“ not in the simple sense “wife to a Pharaoh“, but with the meaning of the sole and indisputable ruler of the country. In that way, Hatshepsut has truly been the first queen all over the World! Daughter to Tuthmosis I, wife to Tuthmosis II and aunt to Tuthmosis III, Maatkare Hatshepsut prevented the latter from becoming a Pharaoh and fully exercising his tasks, and she ruled in his stead for about 20 years, 1479 - 1457 according to the recent studies of Desroches-Noblecourt (p. 8 - 10). First published in the Egyptian monthly CLEO, October 2002 Republished online in Buzzle:
