Archive: Hatshepsut

In this archive episode of In Our Time, Misha Glenny discusses the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut with Egyptologists Elizabeth Frood, Kate Spence, and Campbell Price. First broadcast in November 2014, the conversation examines her reign from about 1479 to 1458 BC, a period when Egypt was recovering from the Second Intermediate Period. The guests explore how Hatshepsut rebuilt Egyptian power through international trade and commissioned buildings regarded as masterpieces of Egyptian architecture. They also consider her significant changes to the ideology surrounding the pharaoh and the gods. The episode addresses the puzzling erasure of her name from records and ancient king lists after her death.