Αναρτώ και πάλι ένα βίντεο που είχα αρχικά ανεβάσει το 2011, οπτικοποιώντας ένα υπέροχο κείμενο του Έλληνα Αιγυπτιολόγου και Ανατολιστή καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη το οποίο είχε πρωτοδημοσιευθεί στο περιοδικό CLEO (Κάιρο, 2002). Στο άρθρο του αυτό, ο τότε αρχισυντάκτης και διευθυντής του περιοδικού αυτού είχε κάνει μια βιβλιοκρισία ενός βιβλίου της παλιάς γαλλίδας καθηγήτριάς του Κριστιάν Ντερός Νομπλεκούρτ αναφορικά με την μεγάλη ναυτική αποστολή την οποία η Φαραώ Χατσεπσούτ, πρώτη βασίλισσα της Παγκόσμιας Ιστορίας, είχε στείλει στο Πουντ (σημερινή Σομαλία νοτίως του Κέρατος της Αφρικής) γύρω στο 1470 π.Χ.
Hatshepsut and her Expedition to Pount, the coast of Somalia
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, La Reine Mysterieuse (the Mysterious Queen) Hatshepsout, Pygmalion, Paris, 2002, 504p.
A book review by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The last book of the famous French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt is dedicated to a not yet very well known royal person of the Pharaonic times: Maatkare Hatshepsut, the First Queen of the World History. The importance of Hatshepsut lies above all in the fact that, referring to her, we use the term "queen" not in the simple sense "wife to a Pharaoh", but in the significance of the sole and indisputable ruler of the country. In that way, Hatshepsut has truly been the first female ruler all over the World! Daughter to Thutmosis I, wife to Thutmosis II and aunt to Thutmosis III, Maatkare Hatshepsut prevented the latter from becoming a fully exercising his tasks Pharaoh, and ruled in his stead for about 20 years, 1479 - 1457 according to the recent studies of Desroches-Noblecourt (p.8 - 10).
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt is an almost mythical figure of today's Egyptology; General Conservator at the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum for many long years, professor at the famous Ecole du Louvre, research fellow at the Institut Francais d' Archeologie Orientale du Caire already before the World War II, she was the real soul of the great UNESCO campaign "Sauvetage de Nubie". The campaign was carried out in the late 50s, in the 60s and the 70s and helped in preserving (and transporting elsewhere) numerous temples of Nubia (in Egypt and the Sudan), which would have been lost forever under the waters of the lake behind the High Dam (Sad al Ali) of Aswan. She was the most active scholar in all the stages of the campaign (especially in the two Abu Simbel temples' transportation to a higher and safer __cpLocation), and she did not limit herself in the purely scientific work, but participated in the much needed fundraising, in the political and international contacts that would create among numerous heads of state the necessary sensitivity for this big project, as well as in innumerable meetings related to the technical and practical needs of the campaign. Desroches-Noblecourt has been a Commander of the Legion d' Honneur and Grand Officer of the Order of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Desroches-Noblecourt sheds much light on various aspects of the Queen's reign, and helps us unveil Hatshepsut's most interesting and intriguing events and moments of reign: how she decided to keep the reins of royal power in a world where only men were meant to rule, and usurp the throne rights of her nephew! The importance of a graffito in Nag El Mahatta, Aswan, is stressed in the book and this concerns not only the extraction and transportation of two obelisks, but also the intimate relationship Hatshepsut had with Senenmut, the "Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt". Throughout the torrents of her reign, this story seems to be a long romantic affair of a Queen, who was always politically too weak (because of her sex) to get married with someone of non-Pharaonic origin whom she just loved too much.
https://www.academia.edu/23406636/Hatshepsut_and_her_Expedition_to_Punt_the_coast_of_Somalia_-_A_book_review_by_Prof._Dr._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
