When archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...

Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be more nuanced.

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

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

Following Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C.E., Thutmose III, her nephew and successor, launched a systematic program of erasure, smashing her statues and chiseling her name from temple walls.

Reassembling the statue fragments of Hatshepsut. Credit: Harry Burton / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives (M10C 58) The idea that Thutmose III ordered a violent and ...

This damage has traditionally been seen as a violent act of retribution carried out by her nephew and successor, Thutmose III. However, many of the statues survived in relatively good condition ...

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. Ancient Egypt quiz : Test your ...