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Mysterious Female Pharaoh's 4,000-yr-old Tomb Found Hidden Beneath a Pyramid — Experts Say It Holds a Deadly Secret

Egyptian mysteries were one of the most intriguing and vast explorations of the past, with many secrets buried beneath the sands. Though various structures were excavated and open for tourists to ...
Al-Monitor

Gender not main factor in attacks on Egyptian woman pharaoh: study

The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, at the Cairo Museum in 2007 — CRIS BOURONCLE She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Queen Who Would Be King

The statues were those of Hatshepsut, the sixth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, one of the few—and by far the most successful—women to rule Egypt as pharaoh. Evidence of her remarkable reign (c.
Newsweek

Archaeologists Reveal Why Female Pharoah’s Statues Were Destroyed

The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of retribution by her nephew and successor, King Thutmose III, archaeologists have ...
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Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun—here's how we know who lay inside

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs, has been ...
Yahoo

First Pharaoh's Tomb Since 1922 Discovered in Egypt

Archaeologists exploring a neglected corner of the Valley of Kings in Egypt have identified the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh of the New Kingdom. This marks the first such tomb found since 1922 when the ...
The Conversation

It’s the biggest Egyptian tomb discovery in a century. Who was Thutmose II?

Anna M. Kotarba-Morley receives funding from Australian Research Council and previously received funding from National Centre of Science in Poland. Katarzyna Kapiec receives funding from National ...