Her story might be one of ambition and regicide, or one of a woman manipulated by an evil puppetmaster. Or it might be both! Travel with us back in time three thousand years, where our guest, Egyptologist Kara Cooney, introduces us to that most enigmatic (and overlooked) New Kingdom pharaoh, Tawosret.

A complete transcript of this episode is available here.

Dr. Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. Her latest book, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs. She is also the author of The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt. Cooney produced Out of Egypt, a comparative archaeology series which aired in 2009 on the Discovery Channel.

Music featured in this episode used by kind permission of Michael Levy and Ramon Sakr.

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