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 ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

Department of Egyptian Art Archives The statues that formed the subject of my recently published study were discovered in the 1920s. By this time, Thutmose III's proscription of Hatshepsut was already ...

"The statuary of Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty, is believed to have been targeted for violent destruction by Thutmose III ... "during the 1922–1928 Metropolitan Museum of ...

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 ...

The destruction and safeguarding of Gaza’s cultural heritage are the themes of a new exhibition that opened in Paris earlier ...

David Adickes, the artist best known for his Texas-sized sculptures of presidential busts and historical figures, died on ...

Thomas Dambo's fairtyale creatures have arrived at Filoli, a California forest, with important messages about sustainability.

The gatekeepers of contemporary art share how they identify emerging talent—and the unexpected places they discover it.

As federal support for the arts disappears, these creatives are turning identity and protest into their medium.