In her follow-up book, The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World (National Geographic, 2021), Cooney draws parallels between male pharaohs and present-day authoritarians.

Hatshepsut was an early pioneer of 'girl power', taking on the male pharaohs at their own game 3,500 years ago in ancient Egypt, a new study shows.

An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, from 1332 BC to 1323 BC before he died at 19.