Actress Hanan Motawie has been cast as Queen Hatshepsut in a new play titled 'Hatshepsut: Throne and Love', coming soon to ...

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

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An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the ...

Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed? Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed out of spite by Thutmose III. Research suggests many statues underwent ritual deactivation, a common ...

Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually deactivated" instead.

Gender not main factor in attacks on Egyptian woman pharaoh: study Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by ...

This phenomenon of deactivation was not exclusive to Hatshepsut, as in Egyptian tradition, statues of earlier rulers — even those of male pharaohs — were subjected to similar processes to nullify ...

Rather, Hatshepsut's statues were broken to "deactivate" them and eliminate their supposed supernatural powers, according to a study published Tuesday (June 24) in the journal Antiquity.

Re-assessment of damaged statues depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut questions the prevailing view that they were destroyed as an act of defilement, indicating Hatshepsut was treated ...