Seated Statue of Hatsheput, circa 1473–1458 BCE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 115.
Hatsheput reigned as pharaoh for twenty two years and oversaw a peaceful period in Egypt’s history. She reestablished international trade routes, organizing a very popular expedition to Punt. Hatsheput also erected temples and shrines from the Sinai to Nubia.











