Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, only Egypt has provided so many alluring portraits of women. Here, from the award-winning author Leonard Cottrell, are the fascinating stories of those women - from Nefertiti, whose legendary beauty is still extolled after more than 3,000 years and Nefertari, the favorite wife of the great Ramesses II, the slim, elegant little queen who stands between the knees of her husband's colossus in the Karnak temple, to Tiye, wife of the uxorious, luxury-loving Amenophis III, to the formidable Hatsepshut, the only queen of Egypt to rule as a divine pharaoh in her own right, even to wearing the male dress and adopting the full pharaonic titles.