![]() ![]() It also doesn't help that only the most public mentions of Hatshepsut are defaced interior carvings and other places the public would have to do serious work to get at are unaffected. ![]() with Hatshepsut giving Thutmose essentially free rein in military matters once he came of age, and Thutmose never begrudging Hatshepsut her authority over civil administration and trade. Of course, if one could expand knowledge through a military campaign, he'd be happy to do that (his last "campaign" was basically an armed sightseeing/exploration expedition in Nubia). Thutmose himself appears to have been deeply concerned with good governance and expanding knowlege through more than just military action-rather like his aunt. While he did a good bit of conquering, this seems to have largely been a response to Realpolitik concerns about making sure Upper Egypt was safe from raids from the African interior and keeping Mittani from interfering with Egypt's traditional overlordship over Canaan. However, later research showed that Thutmose and Hatshepsut had actually gone along quite well, note Which is less surprising given more recent research. Early scholars theorized that this was the work of her successor and nephew Thutmose III, a military-minded king (being one of the earliest Young Conquerors of whom we have record) whom they guessed might have chafed under the direction of his much more diplomatic aunt.
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