Artistic coffins and elaborate wakes. Photographs of Ghana’s flamboyant funerals are featured in a new book.

Ancient Egypt breakthrough as 100-year-old female pharaoh mystery solved The pharaoh is one of the most powerful figures in the history of Ancient Egypt.

Statues of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut were broken during antiquity to deactivate their supernatural powers, new study says.

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 ...

Hatshepsut came to power around 1479 B.C.E., during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, in the New Kingdom period. She had been the queen consort of Thutmose II, her husband (and half-brother).

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 ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to ...

TORONTO, June 24 — She was one of ancient Egypt’s most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut’s legacy was systematically erased by her ...

Rethinking the 'Shattered Visage' of Queen Hatshepsut: Was Her Statuary Really Destroyed Out of Spite? The iconic image of the shattered statues of Queen Hatshepsut has long been interpreted as ...

Scientists reveal face of Egypt’s forgotten female Pharoah in huge breakthrough Scientists believe statues of the controversial ruler could have been "deactivated".