Could an almost forgotten mummy in the Egyptian Museum be the mummy of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut, asks Zahi Hawass Ancient Egyptian kings and queens have magic for all of us, and this ...

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 ...

Not long ago, Egypt's chief of antiquities Zahi Hawass told an audience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that he believes a mummy gathering dust on the third floor of the Cairo Museum was actually ...

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

The images had suffered "almost every conceivable indignity," wrote Egyptologist Herbert Winlock (above c. 1925 at Thebes) of statues he unearthed of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Metropolitan Museum ...

There was something strangely touching about her fingertips. Everywhere else about her person all human grace had vanished. The raveled linen around her neck looked like a fashion statement gone ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady ...