highlandsummerqueen: historical women 12/?: Pharaoh Sobekneferu, ?-1802 BCE She was the daughter of
highlandsummerqueen:historical women 12/?: Pharaoh Sobekneferu, ?-1802 BCEShe was the daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Manetho states she also was the sister of Amenemhat IV, but this claim is unproven. Sobekneferu had an older sister named Nefruptah who may have been the intended heir… Sobekneferu was the first known female Pharaoh for which there is confirmed proof… She died without heirs and the end of her reign concluded Egypt’s brilliant Twelfth Dynasty and the Golden Age of the Middle Kingdom as it inaugurated the much weaker Thirteenth Dynasty -- source link
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