Through architecture and trade Hatshepsut exhibited her capabilities as pharaoh. During her reign Egyptian traders sailed across the eastern Mediterranean and south along the east coast of Africa. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt History Egyptian Art In the history of Egypt during the dynastic period 3000 to 332 BC there were only two or three women who managed to rule as. . One product Egyptians wanted to find was wood. Restoration and building were important royal duties and she undertook extensive building programs namely on the temples of the national god Amon-Re. Egyptians traded wheat paper gold copper and tools for wood furniture ebony ivory incense ad myrrh. She expanded trading relations and dispatched a major sea-borne expedition to the land of Punt on the African coast at the southernmost end of the Red Sea. She is considered one of Egypts most successful pharaohs. Hatshepsut means Fore...