Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

Download or read book Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun written by Moyra Caldecott and published by Mushroom eBooks. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and passionate story of Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt during the Eighteenth dynasty. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly, Hatshepsut established Amun as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power. This is a story of vision and obsession, of mighty projects and heartbreaking failures -- the story of a woman possessed by the desire for power and the need to love. Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is part of Moyra Caldecott's magnificent Egyptian sequence. Don't miss Akhenaten: Son of the Sun, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra and The Ghost of Akhenaten.