Just read on CNN that the mummy of Hatshepsut has been identified. Apparently they just got around to doing tests and discovered that this was the mummy of the 5th Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. (It almost sounds like I know what I'm writing about, huh.) Actually I think it's exciting because Hatshepsut who was co-regent for her nephew and stepson- Don't you love these Ancient Egyptian family trees- decided to keep the throne for herself and became pharaoh. Yup, she was way ahead of her time. I stumbled across her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where they have some statues. You can find her there with her fake beard. Few representations of her exist, because many of her likenesses were smashed, presumably by the thwarted nephew when he came to power years later.
Just a little tidbit for today.
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