GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Hatshepsut, like other pharaohs, was the child of a king. Unlike the others, she was a woman. One of only a few female pharaohs in thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history, Hatshepsut didn’t inherit her rulership like a man would have-only sons were allowed to succeed their fathers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Female pharaohs did not have a different title from male counterparts, but were simply called pharaohs.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the sixth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, Hatshepsut was one of the few – and by far the most successful – women to rule Egypt as pharaoh.