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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 ...
After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
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 reexamination of the earliest silver hoard found at Megiddo suggests it was likely deposited during or after Pharaoh Thutmose III’s mid-15th century BCE campaign, rather than in the Middle ...
A rare amulet bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler Thutmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned from 1479 – 1425 BCE, was discovered at the Temple Mount Sifting Project located ...
The mummy of Thutmose II illustrated in the book "From Pharaoh to Fellah" in 1888. ... “However, it does tell us that he was buried by Hatshepsut and not by his son, the infant Thutmose III.
Thutmose III "would have been influenced by political considerations — such as whether Hatshepsut's reign was detrimental to his legacy as a pharaoh," Wong said.