Twosret

Final pharaoh of the 19th dynasty

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Lived -1201–-1189, aged 12
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    -1201–-1189
    Aged 12
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

She ruled Egypt at the tail end of the Nineteenth Dynasty — the last pharaoh before the line collapsed. Ancient sources gave her seven years, but most of that belonged to her predecessor; her own throne time was brief, perhaps three years, and then the record goes dark.

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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…

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