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After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
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 ...
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 ...
Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...
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 successor.
Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
Here’s how it works. A statue of Queen Hatshepsut of ancient Egypt, whose many statues were broken following her death in around 1458 B.C. (Image credit: KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images) ...
A recent study challenges the long-held belief that Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed out of spite by Thutmose III.
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...