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After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
Analysis - After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her ...
In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...
Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...
Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
When archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...
Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt roughly 3,500 years ago, taking over following the death of her husband Thutmose II.
Egypt has now been deprived of the bust for 102 years. It has never been sent back to Egypt on loan, even as it changed homes in Germany and despite the context of two World Wars.
A British-Egyptian team of archaeologists have discovered the first royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings area since the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Officials have confirmed it as belonging to King ...
This discovery opens new doors to our understanding of daily life, spirituality, and urban planning in the Delta.” ...
Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...