Twosret

Twosret came to power around 1191 BC, initially as regent during the nearly six-year reign of Siptah, her predecessor, whose years she later claimed as her own. When she ruled independently, she took the royal name Sitre Meryamun — "Daughter of Re, beloved of Amun." Excavation of her memorial temple at Gournah suggests it was completed and operational, and that she began a ninth regnal year, pointing to two or three years of sole rule rather than the single year once assumed. Manetho's Epitome remembered her as Thuoris, linking her reign to the fall of Troy through a tangle of Greek names. She…