About the book: 2003 / Queen Hatshepsut was the only woman - a full-fledged ruler of Ancient Egypt. She achieved that the priests recognized her as a pharaoh, the incarnation of the god Horus, which previously only a man could claim. Her great plans, path to power, struggle with opponents, unpredictable actions that combined purely male will and “strange female logic” are narrated in the fascinating novel by Eloise McGraw, which takes us back three millennia into history..