Andrew Collins - The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars - Megalithomania

Explore Egypt with Andrew Collins and Megalithomania in November 2023: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/egypt2023.html. There is a good chance the world would not be the same today had it not been for the brief reign of the first woman to rise to become the leader of both Upper and Lower Egypt. She singlehandedly kept alive the countrys aspirations passing on the torch of Egyptian sovereignty to those who would eventually rise up and banish the country of its opposers - the Hyksos warlords - beginning Egypts greatest period of affluence and achievement - the New Kingdom. But who was this great woman of history? Her name was Sobekneferu and for nearly 3800 years her story has been suppressed - her achievements fragmented and stolen by others, and her legacy forgotten. Andrew Collins brings alive this lost female pharaoh painting her picture for the first time in new book The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars. He shows also how Egyptologists of the nineteenth century started to speculate on her place in Egyptian history causing her to be chosen as the inspiration for the antagonist in Bram Stokers Egyptian novel The Jewel of Seven Stars - a book that became the blueprint for every horror film where an Egyptian royal woman rises from the dead to wreak havoc in the modern world. Sobekneferu would also appear to have been the builder - or the restorer - of megalithic architecture. Her mark is on the mysterious Qasr el-Sagha megalithic temple in Fayum with architecture matching that of Gizas Pyramid Age and also the that of Peru and Easter island.

Andrew Collins is a science and history writer, and the author of From the Ashes of Angels, The Cygnus Mystery, Gbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, The Cygnus Key and Denisovan Origins, co-authored with Greg Little. He co-host tours to Turkey and Egypt with Megalithomania and discovered what has become known as the Collins Caves beneath Giza. He lives in Essex. http://www.andrewcollins.com

The New Book: https://www.amazon.com/First-Female-Pharaoh-Sobekneferu-Goddess/dp/1591434459/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Female-Pharaoh-Sobekneferu-Goddess/dp/1591434459/

Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/megalithomania
Megalithomania T-Shirts & Merch: http://teespring.com/stores/megalithomania
Explore the world with Megalithomania Tours: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html
Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/megalithomaniaUK http://www.megalithomania.co.uk
Copyright Megalithomania MMXXIl. All Rights Reserved.