Female Pharaohs
Interesting facts & information about the Female Pharaohs, the ancient Egyptian Queens. The Female Pharaohs fact sheet provides details of their lives and their families. Information about the dynasty and period in ancient Egyptian history in which the Female Pharaohs lived. Refer to Pharaohs and Queens of Ancient Egypt for additional interesting facts and information
Ancient Egyptian Queen - Female Pharaohs Fact Sheet |
Fact 1 on Female Pharaohs: | Names: The names of the ancient queens of Egypt who ruled in their own right were: Queen Sobeknefru
Queen Hatshepsut
Queen Twosret
Queen Nitocris
| Fact 2 on Female Pharaohs: | All of the queens of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, including the legendary Queen Cleopatra VII, also ruled in their own right as pharaoh-queens. All but the famous Queen Cleopatra refused to speak Egyptian and insisted on speaking Greek, the native language of the Ptolemies.
Berenice I
Arsinoe I
Arsinoe II
Berenice II
Arsinoe III | Cleopatra I
Cleopatra II
Cleopatra III
Cleopatra IV
Berenice III Philopator | Cleopatra V Tryphaena
Berenice IV Epiphaneia
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena
Arsinoe IV
Cleopatra VII Philopator
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| Fact 3 on Female Pharaohs: | Most of the Ptolemaic queens were called Cleopatra and most of the Ptolemaic kings were called Ptolemy.
| Fact 4 on Female Pharaohs: | Merneith was a queen-consort and a regent of Ancient Egypt and she may also have been a ruler in her own right.
| Fact 5 on Female Pharaohs: | The names of the most famous queen consorts, the wives of pharaohs, were Queen Nefertiti, Queen Tiye and Queen Nefertari.
| Fact 6 on Female Pharaohs: | Queen Cleopatra was the ambitious mistress of Julius Caesar and the wife of Mark Anthony who reigned from 51-30BC. Following defeat at the hands of the Romans, she committed suicide by by allowing an asp to bite her on her chest. She was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
| Fact 7 on Female Pharaohs: | Queen Hatshepsut reigned between 1479–1458 BC during the 18th dynasty. She opened up new trading opportunities in the 'Land of Punt' and was a prolific builder and was memorialized in her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari. 
Hatshepsut mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari
| Fact 8 on Female Pharaohs: | Queen Twosret reigned from 1187-1186BC during the 19th dynasty. She was first the regent on behalf of her step-son Siptah and then ruled Egypt with the aid of a high ranking, wealthy, courtier known as Chancellor Bay.
| Fact 9 on Female Pharaohs: | Queen Nitocris reigned during the period in history known as the Old Kingdom. She assumed the throne following the muder of her brother King Merenre Nemtyemsaf II. She exacted her revenge by inviting his murderers to a lavish banquet, then killed them by flooding the sealed room with waters from the River Nile. She then committed suicide.
| Fact 10 on Female Pharaohs: | Queen Sobeknefru reigned from 1785-1782 BC. She died less than 4 years from assuming the throne. Her untimely death led to the rule of the Hyksos, "foreign rulers" who introduced the horse and chariot to the ancient Egyptians. continued...
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