Hatshepsut

…There are obelisks, including one raised by Hatshepsut that stands about 30 metres tall and weighs in the region of 300 tonnes, quarried in one piece, floated downriver on a barge and set upright by methods that are still debated.…

…So in you know the early part of the twentieth century, Hatshepsut was this woman who was being manipulated by Senmut and had this torrid relationship with him and was, you know, was was manipulated by these men in the court.…

…Whatever the motive, the attempt to erase Hatshepsut, like the attempt to erase Akhenaten, ultimately failed, and it failed in the now familiar way, through the stubborn persistence of the very traces the erasers left behind.…