Hatshepsut is likely a name many people have never heard. Even though she was pharaoh of Egypt for 22 years and one of the most powerful women in antiquity. That’s because two decades after her reign she was purposely, and methodically, erased from history. Reporter Sarah Birnbaum has the story.
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