Hatchepsut, the female pharaoh… If I say pharaoh, you surely picture a nice good looking topless man, wearing a stylish beard and a white linen loincloth. His eyes are circled with khôl, a gorgeous gold and lapis lazuli pectoral around his neck. On his shaved head, the characteristic red and white Egyptian crown and in his hands the sceptre and a whip. It is very unlikely you would picture a woman, nor associate a woman with the role of pharaoh. This makes Hatchepsut a very interesting pharaoh. I knew her mortuary temple from pictures on travel websites. But I had no notions of who she was, of how unusual she…