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The name "Hatshepsut" could also be read "The Sign of the Sheba of the South". The name, according to this thesis, comprises three syllables: Hat-Shep-Sut. "Hat" means the prophets in ancient Egyptian (Haa)but as they give signs we could also consider the Hebrew "H'at" which means "The Sign". The reason for doing this is that if we can read the hieroglyphs this way, this is the fabled Queen Sheba who visited Solomon. Although "fabled" she is well documented in the Bible where several verses are given to Sheba's visit to Solomon. She is called the Queen of the South in the New Testament, thus Sheba was of the Sut or South. Today "The Sudan" echoes the "Suten" of the ancient "Sut-en-bat" of the Egyptians, a term used to cover the whole Nile river system - North and South. Josephus Flavius said Sheba was queen of Egypt and Ethiopia. Only Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty was Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia because this was one of the few dynasties that actually did rule both lands. Few debate that.

In his Memphis excavations, William Flinders Petrie found a reference to the "Ra Shepses" in the time of Ramesses II. Apparently this office was re-instated by Ramesses many years after the original office had declined. Clearly, the Egyptian king or queen had to maintain the official records and had to be familiar with hieroglyphs which were the main form of communication between king and subjects or between government and people. Solomon had this role as well but he was also well-versed in the 'Word of God'. And it is this 'Word' that Sheba came to hear. We can well imagine Hatshepsut, especially if she was a gifted linguist and scholar like England's Elizabeth I, would have a great desire to listen to Solomon. As the Biblical record shows, she responded to "One Sign" (New Testament) or "One Word" (Old Testament).

Thus it is entirely possible that the hieroglyphs for her name read "The Sign of the The Sheba of The South (Egypt and Ethiopia)" and this explains her sudden demise. From an Egyptian point of view she became an Apostate like Akhenaten because she converted to the worship of a different god (God) i.e., Jehovah of Israel. Ramesses's scribes seem to have deleted Hatshepsut and Akhenaten from the official record - basically for a similar reason, Apostasy.

Faced with her imminent demise she built a temple at Deir el-Bahari to reflect the famous words of Solomon in his Song of Solomon: "O my dove, you are in the cleft of the rock in the secret places of the stairs". Only Sheba-Hatshepsut could have known those words after her many meetings with Solomon. Her temple sits under the clefts of a rock-face, stairs leading to a holy shrine with secret tunnels bored into the cliff on either side. The stairs and the causeway are a copy of those used to construct Solomon's temple. The frontage would be what Solomon's looked like. Deir el-Bahari is in fact a copy of Solomon's temple although unfinished because Thutmose III then had enough power to overthrow her and stop the Temple Project. The Land of Punt recorded on the walls of the temple is Israel-Lebanon (Pun = Pun-icea, or Phoenicia). Israel was the bridge land where Africa met Asia and God met Man in Jerusalem. It is the Bridge or Punt of the World.

The trouble is that Hatshepsut and her dynasty pre-dated Solomon by 500 years according to official Egyptian chronology. This thesis counters by saying the chronology of ancient Egypt therefore has to be reconstructed. That cannot be done here but recent apparent discoveries of Hatshepsut's mummy and missing molar would seriously challenge the hypothesis here because it would seem the mummy of one who is to be resurrected with the Saints of Old, according to Jesus in the New Testament, would remain in peace and undisturbed until that resurrection. That is the test of this hypothesis that enables the hypothesis to be falsified. A very important and neccessary requirement of any hypothesis. If this mummy that has been found is indeed Hatshepsut's, then all the circumstances outlined above, and much more information which cannot be discussed here, would then suggest that a very clever set of circumstances has been established regarding the archaeology of Hatshepsut that gives a very strong impression that she was the Queen of Sheba. But who would want to fake something like that and how or when was this done?

The search for Hatshepsut's mummy is a very important task. But there is a double-edged sword here for a lot of reasons.

Don StewartTtdonaldstewart 15:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)