What does the concept of a female pharaoh mean? How did such a phenomenon become possible? As a result of what events could a woman take the Egyptian throne as the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt, and therefore have unlimited power? Should such a phenomenon be viewed as something completely exclusive and perceived as a whim, an accident of the course of history, or is it a manifestation of the legal right of women, realized by only a few of them? The book touches not only on the climax of a woman’s rise to power, but also on what made such a change in her destiny possible, how long these women managed to stay on the throne, what the Egyptians themselves thought about it, and whether the presence of a female pharaoh was a contradiction to long-standing laws and traditions.