Egypt unveiled a series of archaeological discoveries near Luxor, including 4,000-year-old tombs of high-ranking officials and intricate artwork dating back to the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. The ...

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 ...

As pharaoh, Hatshepsut (reigned from c1479 - 1458 BC)was different - she was a woman. Customarily Egyptian culture restricted kingship to men, but Hatshepsut's determination and cunning silenced her ...

Restoration work on the newly discovered artefacts, near the Queen Hatshepsut Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari in Luxor CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation ...

Archaeologists and restoration specialists began the painstaking work at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, only to uncover remarkable evidence of ancient Egyptian artistic ...

A queen who proclaimed herself king is the spectacular subject of a spectacular new exhibition at the Met. Hatshepsut: From A queen who proclaimed herself king is the spectacular subject of a ...

Hatshepsut and her sister Nefrubity were born to Pharaoh Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. Her father expanded the territories of Syria and Nubia under Egyptian rule. When Hatshepsut was 12 years of age, ...

In this day and age, questions of gender and identity are a matter of frequent discussion. We are encouraged to refer to people by the gender they identify as, rather than automatically considering ...

Before she was erased from history, Hatshepsut had been both queen and king of Egypt. Hat-who? Was what? We've heard of pharaohs and Cleopatra but who was Hatshepsut, how could she be both king and ...

A detailed carving hauled out of storage at Swansea University in Wales depicts the face of the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut. The limestone piece wasn't expected to be so intriguing. A part of the ...