3: Queens of Egypt – Part 3

This one is about:

 Tawosret – her independent rule was short lived and ended in a civil war, but she was not a passive pawn in the hands of scheming nobles as previously portraited.
– Fun Fact: Tawosret did not bear any children which she could pass on the rule to and was most likely violently removed from power.

Cleopatra – She did not arrive to Cesar rolled up in the carpet, was not a great seducer of men, and did not die from a snake bite.  
– Fun Fact: Cleopatra was aware Mark Anthony was after her cash. At their meeting the lavish spectacle of her arrival was not a sign of depraved excess, she broadcasted her wealth to get Mark Anthony to cooperate with her politically.

Sources:
– Cooney, K., 2018. When Women Ruled The World: Six Queens Of Egypt. National Geographic Books.

Images:

1. Twosret playing the sistrum (Amada Temple, Nubia)
2. Foundation plaque bearing the double cartouches of Queen Twosret (The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London)
3. Bust of Cleopatra VII (Altes Museum – Berlin)
4. Cleopatra dressed as a pharaoh and presenting offerings to the goddess Isis (Louvre, Paris)
5. Cleopatra and Caesar (1866), Jean-Léon Gérôme
6. The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra (1885), by Lawrence Alma-Tadema