CAIRO, Egypt -- The long-overlooked mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most powerful female ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new study presents a different narrative ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Egyptian authorities said Wednesday that a mummy found a century ago has been identified as the remains of pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled over Egypt during the 15th century B ...

CAIRO, Egypt — A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah — possibly the most significant find since ...

Evidence of Egyptian pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut's alleged affair with a local is hinted at in hidden wall carvings in C5 documentary: The Nile: Egypt's Great River With Bettany Hughes.

Evidence of New Female Pharaoh 11 photos. Ancient stone blocks depicting Queen Hatshepsut have been discovered on Egypt's Elephantine Island, providing insights into the early years of her reign ...

Hatshepsut (c. 1505–1458 BC) was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The daughter of Thutmose I, she became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, when ...

A stone block found on Egypt's Elephantine Island shows Queen Hatshepsut as a female (highlighted by red lines). Later images of the pharaoh portrayed her as a male king.

When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose III, ordered for her statues to be defaced and destroyed to erase her from ...

A mystery surrounding one of the most powerful women in history is slowly unfolding, as it appears that the mummy of Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut has been found, closing a 3,400 year-old cold cas… ...

Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh who reigned from around 1473 to 1458 B.C. during the 18th dynasty, one of the greatest eras of ancient Egypt. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories ...