Hatshepsut’s influence during her lifetime encompasses every aspect of ancient Egyptian society. Her position as pharaoh allowed her to influence the military, religious and political spheres of her life. Militarily, Hatshepsut is not considered strength, according to Gardiner: “Hatshepsut conducted no military campaigns with the exception of a meaningless one in Nubia”. Numerous inscriptions, however, can counteract this criticism. Although fragmentary, they do state the king’s influence on Egypt’s neighbors.
Evaluate the foreign policy of Hatshepsut (15) Throughout Hatshepsut's reign she chose not to pursue active military activity to the extent of her predecessors, with little evidence to support any foreign campaigns for military purposes, suggesting a lack of uprisings particularly from the Nubians. Instead, she concentrated on the internal affairs of Egypt and trading expeditions, most famously being her expedition to Punt. However, other trading expeditions were also recorded and included Byblos and Sinai, as well as Punt. These stimulated a grandoise building program which continued to emphasise the importance of Amun- Re, and came to reflect her innovative religious agenda with the incorporation of new concepts such as the ideology of kingship and the importance of oracles, among more. Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt became one of her most celebrated achievements.
Nevertheless, this is not the most mysterious fact of Hatshepsut’s biography. What is more striking is that there is little evidence of her existence. Obviously, her relationship with Thutmose III was not quite peaceful, for when he became a king, he chiseled her images off the temples’ walls and monuments. When a distinguished archeologist Howard Carter found one of her tombs in 1903, her body was not there. The mystery had almost been solved in 2005 by Zahi Hawaas and his team who took a closer look at a mummy found a century ago which was named KV6oa.
* Hatshepsut herself inscribes on the Third Pylon at Karnak that she is the one, “who commands what happens…The Asiatic being in fear and the land of Nubia in submission”. * A relief in the Berlin Museum shows running soldiers armed with heavy artillery – indicating warrior pharaoh image. Nubians are shown with Egyptians. Details can be lost in the medium of reliefs, so either the Nubians alongside the Egyptians indicates them being taken off as slaves, or them as part of the Egyptian army, supporting the theory of acculturation proposed by Vivian Davies. People who provide
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