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 Egypt’s most famous rulers. For years, historians believed Pharaoh Hatshepsut ...

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

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

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

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.

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' ...

Hatshepsut is one of the most famous figures in ancient Egypt.In 1479 BCE, she took on the role of regent on behalf of her young nephew Thutmose III. By 1473, she began ruling as a pharaoh in her ...

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 ...