- Interesting Facts about Hatshepsut
- The name Hatshepsut means "Foremost of Noble Ladies".Her father Thutmose I was a general, but became Pharaoh because the previous Pharaoh did not have a son.
- Archeologists think that Thutmose III had many of the statues and references to Hatshepsut destroyed.
- As a way to justify becoming pharaoh, she claimed that she was the daughter of the god Amun.
- Her nephew Thutmose III was known as the "Napoleon of Egypt" because of how he expanded the Egyptian Empire through war.
- In order for people to accept her as pharaoh, Hatshepsut began to dress like a pharaoh. She wore the pharaoh's headdress with a cobra. She even wore a fake beard and a short kilt like the men wore