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Meanwhile, statues that were confirmed to have been damaged during Thutmose III's reign were destroyed specifically by breaking them across weak points: specifically, the neck, waist and knees.

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.

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Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another factor grounding Thutmose’s supposed hatred towards his stepmother were the smashed faces of Hatshepsut’s statues.

Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt roughly 3,500 years ago, taking over following the death of her husband Thutmose II.

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Significantly, Wong discovered that the statues sustained extra damage long after Thutmose’s reign, when they were broken up and reused as raw material, complicating the picture.

He said there is no doubt Thutmose III worked to eliminate evidence of Hatshepsut's achievements, but his efforts were "perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy," said Wong.

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His research, which builds on other recent scholarship and is being published in the journal Antiquity, argues Thutmose III's motivations were far more nuanced, casting further doubt on the theory ...