Our Kind of Indiana Jones

 

Written by: Colleen M. Lee

We girls have always wanted a female Indiana Jones. Now we have one in Dr. Kara Cooney—and she's hotter than Indy. Dr. Cooney is an Egyptologist, the author of The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period, a Digging for the Truth team archaeology expert on the History Channel and host of the documentary Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen on the Discovery Channel. The documentary searches for the lost tomb of Hatshepsut, one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs. The surprising element is that Hapshetsut is a woman who posed as a man to rule over the beginning of Egypt's golden age—and the riches that King Tut would inherit.

Why is Hatshepsut so important?
She's important, right, because it was a major discovery that identified her mummy and her mummy had never been identified before. Her images had been erased. Some people had assumed that her mummy had been burned or destroyed, they'd tried to erase her from the very afterlife existence that she may have wanted. So finding her mummy and making that link was a big deal for a lot of people and especially for the public. I think it really fired up the public imagination in a new way. Everybody loves Egypt. Everybody knows about King Tut and Cleopatra, to add another image or face to that story, I think, just fired up the imagination even more. Especially a female face.

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