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 ...

Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...

In a study, Canadian archaeologists from the University of Toronto challenged the long-held belief that images of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut were destroyed out of revenge by her successor, Thutmose ...

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 ...

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

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. Yet ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the past ...

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