Africa's gifts for a pharaoh |
Hatshepsut's image |
As my fictional archaeologist and Egyptologist Anson Hunter remarks:
“Intriguingly, Hatshepsut sent a
carved stone statue of herself to the distant land of Punt and
I’ve often pictured it sitting somewhere, a milky stone queen of Egypt dreaming
in the African bush, perhaps sparking legends of a white queen in darkest
Africa. I read too much Rider Haggard as a child.”