HATSHEPSUT, female pharaoh (1479-1457 BCJ.C.)
The twenty-two years of her reign were peaceful and prosperous. Thirty three centuries before Bonaparte, she ordered a trading expedition in the mysterious Land of Punt, the Egyptian Eldorado located between the White Nile, the Blue Nile and Atbarah (present Eritrea), to bring back aromatic trees, myrrh or other prestigious products. This was recorded on the walls of her temple, and the expedition also had scientists, botanists, zoologists. Carrying on from her father's works, she separated her mortuary temple from her tomb.


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