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When Hatshepsut claimed the throne Thutmose III was only 12 years of age. It has been debated that Hatshepsut therefore had time to win over the support of important political officials, including Hapusoneb and Senenmut. This would ensure her steady rise to power. Tyldesley (1998) states ‘hers was a gradual evolution’. However the main reason why Hatshepsut was able to become pharaoh was through a large amount of propaganda. The propagandas’ main emphasis was on her relationship with her heavenly father Amun and her biological father Thutmose I. The Pharaoh of Egypt would usually proclaim themselves as being the physical son of the predominant god in Egypt (Bradley, P, 1999). Hatshepsut depicted this in her Devine Conception and Birth scenes on the Middle Colonnade at her mortuary temple, Deir el Bahri. However these accounts were different in that it involved, for the first time, the birth of a female ruler. The reliefs depict how Amun foretold the gods about the birth of the female Hatshepsut. It also portrays Amun taking on Thutmose I’s form and placing his ankh to queen Ahmose’s nose, where she breathes in his essence and conceive Hatshepsut. The god Khnum was instructed by Amun to make the khet and its ka on his potter’s wheel, where the royal baby Hatshepsut and her ka are shown as being male (Bradley, P, 1999). In these scenes she is promised all the land and people of Egypt by Anubis. Her coronation reliefs depict both Amun and Thutmose I claiming Hatshepsut as the next ruler of Egypt. The first scene shows Hatshepsut represented as a boy being purified and presented by Amun, before the gods. She then is shown visiting the shrines of the gods alongside Thutmose I, there the gods welcome her as the future king. Then is crowned by the gods and depicted in Thutmose I’s court where she is declared his successor. However these scenes are false, the dates of these events do not