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Everybody wants to rule the world

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

October 31, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Kara Cooney is an Egyptologist and National Geographic explorer with an interest in women’s roles in ancient Egypt. This book is a taster tour of the rise and fall of 6 of Egypt’s female rulers, the most famous of which are Cleopatra, Hatshepsut and Nefertiti. Before I read this I was passingly familiar with these three but had never heard of the others she features (Merneith, Neferusobek and Tawosret). The timelines covered are broad- Merneith was the first of the six and she ruled in […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: cbr14bingo, egypt, Kara Cooney, star, When Women Ruled the World

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: History · Tags: cbr14bingo, egypt, Kara Cooney, star, When Women Ruled the World ·
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God Save the King

January 6, 2017 by expandingbookshelf 2 Comments

I think all of us went through an Egypt phase in school. It was right after our paleontologist phase and right before we became too cool for phases. We devoured any National Geographic with the pyramids on the cover, became a little too knowledgeable about the macabre process of mummification, and spouted off as many facts about the “cool” pharaohs that our patient parents would listen to. There was the trifecta of the most badass pharaohs to ever pharaoh-Nefertiti, King Tut and Cleopatra. Well, with […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: biography, egypt, Kara Cooney, Non-Fiction, The Woman Who Would Be King

expandingbookshelf's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: biography, egypt, Kara Cooney, Non-Fiction, The Woman Who Would Be King ·
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A Gender-Bending Reign In Ancient Egypt

The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney

March 31, 2016 by Gabby N Leave a Comment

When I was a little girl, my mom bought me a book about King Tutankhamen. It had beautiful glossy photos, and I was fascinated by the short life of the boy king…and the maybe-supernaturally shortened lives of the people who excavated his tomb and awakened the mummy’s curse. From there sparked a love of ancient Egypt, peaking when I was absolutely nerdy enough at age 9 or so to write a letter to the editor to correct one of the Detroit papers when they ran […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: egypt, Kara Cooney

Gabby N's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: egypt, Kara Cooney ·
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