As Hatshepsut grew up, men came in and out of her life, but the three men who had actually impacted her life were King Thutmose I, King Thutmose lI, and King Thutmose III.
Thutmose I
According to the maven Egyptologists Zahi Hawass, Hatshepsut was the daughter and only child of King Thutmose I known also as (Son of Thout and King of wisdom) and his primary wife, Ahmose.
With short reigns, king Thutmose I pushed the Egyptian frontier southward to the Third Cataract, near the lands of Nuba kingdom, while also gathering tribute from his Asiatic possessions and perhaps campaigning in Syria and Palestine.
Some Inscriptions found in southern Egypt in the Third Waterfall region of Nuba, then known as Waterfall of Sudan, indicate that he also ruled Nuba country.
Thutmose II
On the other hand, Thutmose II was born to Thutmose I, his predecessor, by one of his secondary queens, Mutnofret. Thutmose II married his fully royal half-sister, Hatshepsut, at an early age.
Moreover, Thutmose I’s son and successor was a physically weak person, and many historians speculate that even during his rule, Hatshepsut may have been the real power behind the throne.
On this basis, Hatshepsut and Thutmose II were co-rulers of Egypt, with Hatshepsut very much the dominant king.
Meanwhile, Engineer Sinmout, who is the architect who built the famous temple at Deir al-Bahari of Hatshepsut was without doubt greatly loved by Hatshepsut, but there is no direct evidence that he was "a lover of the Queen."
In this regard, some Egyptologists tend to believe this, and Sinnamot was likely the father of the girl Nefro-Ra. Moreover, this may be real evidenced by a statue of him carrying Nefro-Ra, and this may be more than mere education.
According to an inscription from Wadi El molouk 42 tomb in Aswan, a number of rebels from Nubia, fomented a revolt against Egyptian suzerainty and threatened the garrisons stationed in Nubia. Thutmose II, though near from a weakling, had followed his Father's success and dispatched a force with orders to quell the rebels and execute their males.
For the first few years of her husband’s reign, Hatshepsut was an entirely conventional regent. But, by the end of his seventh regnal year, she had eventually been crowned king and one of the pharaohs’ leaders
Thutmose III
King Thutmose III was the son of Thutmose II; his mother was one of the king’s secondary wives or a lesser harem queen, named Isis.
Similarly, Thutmose III was crowned king on the early death of his father; he was very young at the time.
Thus, his aunt Hatshepsut, and the mother of Thutmose III’s half-sister Neferure—acted as regent.
Although Most the Egyptologists claimed that Thutmose III had almost all of the evidence of Hatshepsut’s rule–including the images of her as king on the temples and monuments she had built–eradicated, possibly to erase her example as a powerful woman ruler, experts of ancient Egypt knew much of Hatshepsut’s existence until today, when they were able to decode and read the hieroglyphics on the walls of her magnificent monument of Deir el-Bahri.
Contributed by Ahmed Emam
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