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About how long after Hatshepsut's death did her stepson Thutmose III begin erasing her name from public monuments?
The erasure campaign began around 1438 BCE, approximately twenty years into Thutmose III's solo reign. The timing fits an institutional motive — clearing the dynastic record for his son Amenhotep II — rather than personal revenge.
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The 18th-Dynasty Egyptian Queen Who Ruled as Pharaoh for Two Decades and Whose Name Her Stepson Ordered Chiselled Off Every Monument Twenty Years After Her Death Hatshepsut ruled Egypt as pharaoh from approximately 1479 to 1458 BCE, the longest reign of any female ruler of ancient Egypt. About twenty years after her death her stepson Thutmose III ordered her cartouches systematically chiselled out of the public monuments she had built. Most of the erasures missed inaccessible interior surfaces, which is how Egyptologists reconstructed her reign in the 19th century.
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