Female pharaoh of the early 18th Dynasty, ruling in her own right beside her stepson and nephew Thutmose III for two decades and building the terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri; late in his reign her names and images were attacked and she was dropped from the king lists, the great precedent for the erasure of the Amarna kings more than a century later.
How royal names worked
Damnatio Memoriae: Erasing the Amarna Kings
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