Melvyn Bragg

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In Our Time · Archive: Hatshepsut · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

the most powerful woman in Egypt by this marriage.

Okay.

Come back to you, Elizabeth Prude.

Uh the the qualifications that you rightly made all along the way there, Kate, it seems that it we are talking about patchy evidence.

Uh we are talking about things put together from inscriptions on monuments, sometimes half erased, sometimes large gaps between, and so on and so forth.

But but let's also tell the listener that among the three of you you've got some pretty straightforward not s some pretty certain

ideas of of what went on in key areas, otherwise we wouldn't do this programme would we?

And so so we we take it for granted that the evidence is patchy, but the evidence is also there and has been knit together over the years by by Egyptologists.

Yeah, but

So uh Elizabeth, so she became

Hi he ca her husband became Tutmos the Second.

And do we know what role she played?

He's the k pharaoh now.

She's what?

you're talking about rituals, are you al always talking about religious rituals, or the state rituals, are they

are they sacrificing stuff or what are they doing?

talking about a priest powerful society, aren't we?

So th the fact that she uh Camel, can I turn to you now, the fact that she held the title of God's wife of Ammon

put her among the priests, uh ahead of the priest and gave her her own independent power and wealth.

What?

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