--- title: Kara Cooney | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kara Cooney ## Kara Cooney ## Kara Cooney *  Oct 18, 2018 ### [Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt. What They Did With It Is a Warning for Today](https://time.com/5425216/ancient-egypt-women-in-power-today/) "Ancient Egypt allowed more females into power in the ancient world than any other place on earth. W... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 5, 2014 ### [Who Remembers the Greatest Woman to Rule the Ancient World?](https://time.com/3558837/greatest-woman-ruler-ancient-world/) Hatshepsut, a woman who was Egypt’s king, serves as a model and cautionary tale for today’s female p... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/","name":"Kara Cooney"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/"},"name":"Kara Cooney","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kara-cooney/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```