Rebel Pharaoh

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INSIDE A PYRAMID, YOUNG HATSHEPSUT SEES A VISION OF HER FUTURE AND BECOMES EGYPT€S MOST CELEBRATED PHARAOH. SECRET DISCOVERIES DURING FABLED EXPEDITION TO PUNT ARE REBURIED BENEATH DESERT SANDS.Walk with Hatshepsut and explore the world that controls the lives of the ancients. Read about the extraordinary connection Hatshepsut had with Sobek, the crocodilian god. Watch her mature from a mischievous princess, to a reluctant chief wife and finally the most majestic pharaoh in Egyptian history. Read how she uncovered priestly magic. Concealed uses of the sacred temples revealed. Sail with her on the Nile to the land of secrets and journey with her across ancient trade routes to the Red Sea. Travel across a hot salt depression and a perilous lake crossing to the legendary Land of Punt. What did she find there? What was the €˜unspeakable relic€ she returned to the Temple of Amun? Was it too complex for her civilization? Was a veil lifted under her administration? Why did h