Wed, Jul 28 | Saint Helena Forum Free Webinar
When Women Ruled
"For thousands of years, women of power and rule have been removed from history and too seldom been celebrated. While female rulers are exceedingly rare, in ancient Egypt remarkable information has surfaced from archaeological records and hieroglyphic texts that enable their stories to be told.
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Time & Location
Jul 28, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Saint Helena Forum Free Webinar
About the Event
Join this free webinar and a provocative conversation with renowned professor of Egyptology at UCLA Dr. Kara Cooney, whose specialties include afterlife beliefs, burial preparations, and gender studies. Dr. Cooney will address several of these female power brokers who either ruled Egypt as Queen, as Regent or as King, among them Hatshepsut, Nefretiti, and Cleopatra. Dr. Cooney, through the lives of these powerful women and the science of archaeology, looks into the lens of time to further imagine their palace life, and finds a further segue into the society of ancient Egypt and female leadership in society today.