Andrew Collins | The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars | Megalithomania

Explore Egypt with Andrew Collins and Megalithomania in November 2023: There is a good chance the world would not be the same today had it not been for the brief reign of the first woman to rise to become the leader of both Upper and Lower Egypt. She singlehandedly kept alive the country’s aspirations passing on the torch of Egyptian sovereignty to those who would eventually rise up and banish the country of its opposers - the Hyksos warlords - beginning Egypt’s greatest period of affluence and achievement - the New Kingdom. But who was this great woman of history? Her name was Sobekneferu and for nearly 3800 years her story has been suppressed - her achievements fragmented and stolen by others, and her legacy forgotten. Andrew Collins brings alive this lost female pharaoh painting her picture for the first time in new book The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars. He shows also how Egyptologists of the nineteenth century started to spec