Special Exhibition Review: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh

Special Exhibition Review: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions at About's Art History site, is a specialist in Ancient Egyptian art with a longtime interest in Hatshepsut, who was queen and pharaoh during the 18th dynasty of New Kingdom Egypt in the fifteenth century BC. Stan was the perfect man to send to the special exhibition on Queen Hatshepsut, currently at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's second-floor Tisch Galleries in New York City; and his review of the exhibition delightfully detailed.

Related articles:

• Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh - Image Gallery
  Eight high-resolution images of items for which we ran out of space within the exhibition review. A visual treat (From Art History).
• Pharaoh Hatshepsut of Egypt (from About Ancient History).
• Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt (from About Women's History).
• Queen Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahri (from About Archaeology).

The photo is of the Colossal Sphinx of Hatshepsut. Early 18th Dynasty, during the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (1479-1458 B.C.) Western Thebes, Deir el-Bahri. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is made of granite, with a height of 164 cm (64 5/8 in.), width of 90 cm (35 3/8 in.), and a depth of 343 cm (11 ft. 3 in.). Rogers Fund, 1931 (31.3.166)