Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — Hatshopsu-Pharaoh. [ARTICLE]

Hatshopsu-Pharaoh.

Who antedated De Lesseps (1809) by 4,000 years in digging the Sues canal? A woman. Hatshopsu-Pha-raoh. She ascended the throve of Egypt with her brother, Thothmes H about 1600 B. C. Her courage and capacity brought the reins of government into her own hands. At the death of Thothmes she was the master spirit of the age. The dominant woman built the splendid terraced rock temple of Dalr-0-Bahari on the Theban plain. Her glory was In sending an expedition to the Land of Punt (Ophir) by way of the Red sea. A woman dug the first Susa canal, and as the expedition returned up the Nile the shouts that greeted the queen (who always wore the habiliment of the male) was the first “God save the king” in history!