It has pleased historians to rank Thothmes II

as the immediate succe or of Thothmes I., and to place the reign of Queen Hatasu between the reigns of her two brothers, Thothmes II. and Thothmes III. By some she is described as Queen Consort during the reign of Thothmes II., and as Queen-regent during the earlier years of the reign of Thothmes III Brothers, and most emphatically by Dr. Brugsch, she is stigmatized as a usurper. matter of fact, however, Hatasu was actually Queen, and Queen-regnant, during the lifetime of her father. Her acce ion, therefore, dates from a long time preceding that of her brother, Thothmes II. An important historical inscription sculptured on one of the pylons of the Great Temple of Karnak records this event in eighteen columns of hiero