Today’s Illustrated Women in History is a written submission by Hollie Peck. HATSHEPSUT was the longest reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt during the 18th dynasty. Her reign lasted for nearly two decades from 1479 to 1458 BC. Daughter to King Tuthmoses I and Queen Ahmose, she had two younger brothers who both died in …

Neferneferuaten Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen. Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten from 1353 to 1336 B.C. She may have ruled the New Kingdom on her own after her husband’s death. Nefertiti and her husband were responsible for replacing Egypt’s chief god Amon with Aten, the sun god and the only god worthy of …