Finalist · Round One

Hatshepsut

حتشبسوت

The rise and erasure of Egypt's female pharaoh.

From regent to pharaoh: the Punt expedition, the electrum-capped obelisks at Karnak, the terraces of Deir el-Bahari. Then the campaign to chisel her face out of history, and the fragments of her statues now scattered across foreign museums.