What does the concept of female pharaoh mean? How did this 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? Is it necessary to consider such a phenomenon as something completely exclusive and perceive it 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 coming to power, but also on how such a change in her fate became 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 long-standing laws and traditions.