Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hatshepsut was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent and then as queen regnant from around 1479 BC until around 1458 BC. She was Egypt's second confirmed woman to rule in her own right, after Sobekneferu of the Twelfth Dynasty.
Hatshepsut was appointed regent when her stepson Thutmose III inherited the throne at the age of two after the death of her husband Thutmose II. By Year 7 of Thutmose III's reign, around 1472 BC, she had assumed the full position of pharaoh and adopted the complete royal titulary, becoming senior coregent alongside him.
Hatshepsut oversaw hundreds of construction projects throughout Upper and Lower Egypt, including twin obelisks at Karnak that were the tallest in the world at the time of their construction, the underground Temple of Pakhet at Beni Hasan, and her mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahari centered on the Djeser-Djeseru, or Holy of Holies.
Toward the end of the reign of Thutmose III and into the reign of his son Amenhotep II, a campaign removed Hatshepsut from official records. Historians have proposed several motives: allowing Thutmose III to claim direct succession from Thutmose II, Amenhotep II strengthening his own uncertain claim to the throne, or a routine ritual deactivation of funerary statuary rather than deliberate iconoclasm.
Hatshepsut sent a trading mission to the Land of Punt that returned with thirty-one live myrrh trees along with frankincense and other luxuries. She had the charred frankincense ground into kohl eyeliner, which is the earliest recorded use of the resin for that purpose. The expedition was commemorated in relief at Deir el-Bahari.
In spring 2007, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass concluded that a mummy designated KV60A, removed from tomb KV60 in the Valley of the Kings, is very likely Hatshepsut, based on a match between a missing tooth in the mummy's jaw and a molar found in a canopic box bearing her name. In 2011, however, the tooth was re-examined and identified as a lower-jaw molar while the KV60A mummy was missing an upper molar, casting doubt on the identification.