For the past century, the story Egyptologists have told about Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh who ruled 3,500 years ago, has featured an unsavory ending. Following Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C.E., ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to ...

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be more nuanced. Reading time 3 minutes Hatshepsut is one of the most famous ...

Fragments of a limestone statue of Hatshepsut, photographed in 1929 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives / Antiquity Publications ...

Review of an exhibition of objects and jewelry from the reign of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a king in ancient Egypt along with her nephew Thutmose III. Jewelry included a strand of gold and ...

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