Drag-king mummy
NPR has an interesting article about a mummy believed to be Egypt's most powerful female pharoah, Hatshepsup.
Poor Hattie was afraid that she'd lose the regency because she was a woman, so she petitioned and obtained legal authority to rule as king. Then she started doing the drag king thing, complete with fake beard. I wonder if she looked like young Marlon Brando, Egyptian-style.
Anyway, the whole man thing apparently worked out for her, because she's regarded as one of the greatest rulers of her time, at least according to NPR.
posted by Kate at 8:07 PM
Copyright 2001-2009, L.K.C.S. It's MINE, all MINE. If you wanna use it, gimme credit and a link, okies? And don't run with scissors, because you're just going to poke somebody's eye out with that thing. No, really. 
2 Comments:
i wonder if she went by pharoah hatshep so no one would guess the dude was a lady, YEAH! YEAH!
NPR went back in time and conducted a poll of Egytpians. Hatshepsup received a 57% approval rating, with 34% "very sure" that Ra has blessed the pharoah, and 44% in favor of using tax money and slave labor to build more pyramids.
(margin of error +/- 3%)
(Slaves were excluded from the poll)
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