Ever since the Germans first put her now famous bust on display in Berlin in 1924, Nefertiti has become a symbol of the Egyptian world and of beauty itself. Even the artists of the 18th Dynasty weren't concerned with exact representation, making Tyldesley's job even harder. But because nothing is known about Nefertiti's parentage (no one claimed to be related to her) or her exact role as queen, and no verifiable conclusion can be reached about her fate, the information here is closer to pure context or even a biography of Akhenaten himself. Drawing on a ""random assortment"" of archeological remains, a few historical documents and much religious and mortuary art and architecture, she presents an engaging portrait of what Egyptian life was like during Akhenaten's reign, as well as the time just before and after. But she's also scholar Tyldesley's (Hatchepsut, etc.) most elusive subject yet, since, as Tyldesley admits, there are only ""meagre shreds of evidence"" that can support a variety of interpretations about the sun queen. (Dec.If biographers choose their subjects based on interest, then Nefertiti, beloved queen of the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, is certainly a worthy one.
This biography will be of interest primarily to specialists. Was she, then, as many historians have speculated, a cross-dresser or merely power-hungry and eager to outshine the half-brother whom she married, King Tuthmosis II? There's absolutely no evidence to suggest she ""came out"" as a transvestite, concludes English archeologist Tyldesley, and the fact that Hatchepsut retained her female name ""suggests that she did not see herself as wholly, or even partially, male."" In this highly conjectural biography, Hatchepsut emerges as a conformist queen consort who, once her husband died, blossomed as a pragmatic ruler, bringing Egypt an oasis of stable government, impressive architectural restoration and adventurous foreign trade and exploration from Phoenicia to Sinai.
She depicted herself, in temple paintings, as a man who hunted, fished and even sported the pharaoh's hallmark false beard. after more than 20 years of peaceful rule, proclaimed herself pharaoh during her reign. Egyptian Queen Hatchepsut, who died in 1482 B.C.
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