"Foremost of the noble ladies": Inscriptions record several Hatshepsuts; however, none is more famous than that great ruler of the early Eighteenth Dynasty at the beginning of the New Kingdom. Hatshepsut is one of only a few women to have ruled Egypt. She took control of the country while the young regent, Thutmose III, was yet a boy. Her magnificent mortuary temple in a bay of cliffs at Deir el Bahari in Western Thebes had its causeway lined with fragrant myrrh trees imported from her famed expedition to "the terraces of myrrh" in Punt, "the god's land."

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