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#16: Dr. Kara Cooney on Ancient Egyptian Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut: Lessons From the Woman Who Was King in a Man's World

#16: Dr. Kara Cooney on Ancient Egyptian Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut: Lessons From the Woman Who Was King in a Man's World

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Dr. Kara Cooney on Ancient Egyptian Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut:
Lessons From the Woman Who Was King in a Man’s World

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Last year I visited Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple, known as
Deir el-Bahri, in Egypt, and was profoundly awed by the scale,
beauty and symmetry of the structure. It made me wonder – who is
the woman who had the power to create this monument around 3,500
years ago when kings were almost always men? I turned to the
world’s leading expert on Hatshepsut to find out more about this
extraordinary female Pharaoh.

Dr. Kara Cooney is one of the most famous modern faces of
Ancient Egypt. She is an Egyptologist, archeologist, author and
professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. She has
hosted TV shows on the Discovery Channel including
Out of Egypt and
Egypt’s Lost Queen and written
top-selling books including the 2018 book When
Women Ruled The World and the 2015 book,
“The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise
to Power in Ancient Egypt,” which focuses on the
subject of our podcast today – Queen Hatshepsut.

Hapshetsut created the tallest obelisk in the world at the
Temple of Karnak, which still stands in Rome! Hatshepsut lived
from roughly 1507 – 1458 BC and ruled Egypt from an estimated
1478BC until her death. How and why did she come to power
when typically only men ruled? How did she keep her power? What
sacrifices does a woman who wants to rule have to make? What can
we as women learn from her about our modern world?

Kara has Irish-Italian heritage and grew up in Houston. She
obtained a Bachelor in German from the University of Texas and
then a PHD at John Hopkins University in Egyptology. She
co-curated the exhibition
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of
the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art in 2005. Her specialties include economies,
craft production and coffin studies in ancient cultures. She has
spent years at excavations sites in Egypt studying things in
person. Kara currently lives in LA with her husband
Remy.

Some of the courses she teaches at UCLA include
Women and Power in Ancient World and Art and Architecture
of Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period to New Kingdom – so if you
happen to be a current or future UCLA student – you are in
luck!

She also has an upcoming 2020 National Geographic live tour
of the US to discuss When Women Ruled The World.

Learn more about Kara and contact her directly on her
website: http://karacooney.squarespace.com

Kara’s UCLA profile
Kara’s 2020 National Geographic Live Events Schedule
Kara’s Twitter profile
Kara’s Facebook profile
Kara’s Instagram profile
When Women Ruled the World
The Woman Who Would Be King

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