Who are these five (5) Egyptian Women Pharaohs, and why have people tried to erase them from history?

AI Recreated Beauties from the Past

These exceptional women included Merneith from the Old Kingdom, Sobekneferu from the Middle Kingdom, Hatshepsut and Nefertiti from the New Kingdom, and Cleopatra VII from Ptolemaic Egypt. They were the women who climbed to the top of a male-dominated world in the last five thousand years, many of whom we do not know well as later male rulers have attempted to erase them from history.

Chapters:
00:00 Nefertiti
00:43 Hatshepsut
01:37 Cleopatra VII
02:31 Sobekneferu
03:17 Merneith
04:05 Narration and Outro

Nefertiti

Nefertiti (c.  1370 – c. 1330 BC) was the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
They were known for a religious revolution in which they worshipped the sun disc, Aten, as the only god.
An Old theory believed that she lost favor and disappeared by the 12th year of Akhenaten's reign. However, new evidence suggests this to be false.
The New theory believed that Akenaten elevated her to co-regent and full Pharaoh in few years before his death.
Nefertiti was the stepmother of Tutankhamun, who was Akhenaten's son.

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut was the fifth Pharaoh during the New Kingdom, one of the most prosperous eras of the Egyptian Empire.
She reigned in her own right between 1473–58 BCE and was the second historically confirmed female Pharaoh (after Sobekneferu, which we will also present in this video).
Hatshepsut initially ruled as regent to her stepson, Thutmose III, who was two years old when he inherited the throne.
She was the only daughter of Thutmose I and his primary wife, Ahmose. Her husband was her stepbrother by her father's secondary wife.
Hatshepsut enjoyed all the recognition of a pharaoh during her reign and burial, and archaeologists identified her mummy in 2007 (more than 100 years after Howard Carter found her tomb KV60).
About twenty years after her death and late in the reign of Thutmose III, Thutmose or his son conducted the "Damnatio Memoriae" of Hatshepsut, attempting to erase her from historical records.

Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt.
She was known for her romantic involvement with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony during the tumultuous conversion of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Cleopatra had children with Caesar and Anthony; Roman law forbade Romans from marrying foreigners. Otherwise, Caesarion had a stronger claim than Caesar's nephew, Octavian.
Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus) defeated her and Mark Anthony's navy at the Battle of Actium in 31BCE.
In 30BCE, after Octavian defeated Mark Anthony, who committed suicide, Cleopatra tried to seduce Octavian, but Octavian resisted her.
After learning that Octavian wanted to bring her to Rome to parade her in his Triumph, Cleopatra chose to poison herself, possibly by using an asp.

Sobekneferu

Sobekneferu was the female Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled from 1760-1756 BCE. According to recorded history, she was the first to assume a full royal title.
During Egypt's Middle Kingdom, Her half-brother, Amenemhet IV, ascended the throne very late in his life as her father, Amenemhet III, had a long reign.
After her brother died without an heir, she took up the throne and full regal titles as the closest successor.
Sobekneferu's reign lasted three years and ten months, according to the Turin King List. However, many records and lists deliberately excluded her from history.
Other evidence suggested that she may have usurped the throne from her nephews. Interestingly, both her existing statues had broken noses, a sign that someone wanted to kill the statues' powers.


Merrneith

Merneith was the Queen mother of Pharaoh Den and wife of Pharaoh Djet during the first dynasty around five thousand years ago in 3000 BCE.

When the famous Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, found her tomb, he thought he had uncovered an unknown pharaoh's tomb, as Merneith's two tombs were similar to those of other pharaohs.

Her rule occurred around 2950BCE, and she was the regent of her son, Den, who was initially too young to rule.

The Palermo Stone, from the Old Kingdom era, recognized her as a Pharaoh in her own right, making her the first Queen Regnant in recorded history.

Interestingly, none of the New Kingdom records and lists of Kings included Merneith, as the later Egyptian ruler seemed to have removed her from history.

The beauties of the past series are similar to videos on various channels that uses AI to recreate historical Queens, Princesses, and Empresses.

A Good video by History Explained can be seen here:
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The music is “Descendance (Orchestral)” by Wake Yourself Up, licensed via Music Vine: ZIOUXLKE2YQHLJQB\

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