What is Hatshepsut?
[[Image:Hatshepsut.jpg|thumb|Statue of Hatshepsut on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] [[File:Hatshepsut Temple.jpg|thumb|right|Djeser-Djeseru is the main building of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahri. Designed by Senemut, her [[Vizier]], the building is an example of perfect [[symmetry]] that predates the [[Parthenon]]. It was the first complex built on the site, which would become known as the [[Valley of the Kings]].]] [[Image:Hatshepsut-CollosalGraniteSphinx02 MetropolitanMuseum.png|right|thumb|Large [[granite]] [[sphinx]] bearing the likeness of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, shown with the traditional false beard, a symbol of her pharaonic power—''[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'']] [[Image:S F-E-CAMERON 2006-10-EGYPT-WESTBANK-0153.JPG|thumb|right|[[Osiris|Osirian statues]] of Hatshepsut at her tomb, one stood at each pillar. Note the mummification shroud enclosing the lower body and legs as well as the crook and flail associated with Osiris—''Deir el-Bahri'']] [[File:KarnakTemple@LuxorEgypt obelisk2 2007feb9-96 byDanielCsorfoly.JPG|right|thumb|Hatshepsut's obelisk at Karnak.]] '''Hatshepsut''' (1507–1458 BC), meaning ''Foremost of Noble Ladies'',<ref>Clayton, Peter. Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1994. p104</ref> was the fifth [[Pharaoh]] of the 18th dynasty of [[Ancient Egypt]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hatshepsut |title=Hatshepsut |work=Dictionary.com |accessdate=27 July 2007}}</ref> Hatshepsut reigned longer than any other woman of an [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] Egyptian [[dynasty]].<ref name=T/> Her father was [[Thutmose I]]. Her predecessor was [[Thutmose II]] (her brother and husband). Her successor was [[Thutmose III]], her [[nephew]], the son of Thutmose II by a lesser wife. Thutmose III was co-regent with his stepmother, and was head of the army, but Hatshepsut was the effective ruler, and the named Pharaoh. Today it is generally recognized that Hatshepsut assumed the position of Pharaoh. The length of her reign