Analysis - After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her ...

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

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed hidden inscriptions inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid which could reveal who built the iconic ...

Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.

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

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

The mortuary temple, which stands to the east of the pyramid, slightly south of the central axis, was begun in stone then finished hastily in mud brick with columns of wood.

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

Hatshepsut, known by her royal Horus name Ma’at-ka-re, which translates to “Goddess of Truth is the life force of the Sun God,” was born in 1507 BCE as the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and his first ...

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

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