Princess Neferure of Egypt

Geia sas dear readers! Today i saw a documentary on Princess Neferure 'nefer-rou-ray' of Egypt on the Discovery channel. She is the daughter of the Queen Pharaoh Hatshepsut & Thutmose II and the only known child of Hatshepsut. Here is her name in hieroglyphics:

Neferure ,who's name means 'Beauty of Ra', was trained to become Pharaoh after her mother, & though it never happened it was an unheard of thing for a princess to be trained as a Pharaoh. It is thought that she did not out-live her mother Hatshepsut but her cause of death is unknown. They do know her mother died of an infection in her gums that spread; it was previously thought that she was murdered.

Neferue was mostly raised by her tutor and courtier Senemut. There are statues depicting him holding her. They showed her tomb, which was very high up in a steep rock, it had little paintings left and was a very treacherous place with lots of bats.

There are still many more things to uncover about Neferure and how she and her mother lived, but it is incredible that they know as much as they do. I would love to go to Egypt someday and see where they [& many others] lived & ruled.

~SassyAgapi