A recently discovered ancient rock-cut tomb is seen Wednesday at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri in Luxor, Egypt. Khaled Elfiqi, Associated Press ...

When Egyptologists excavated the site of Deir el-Bahri in Luxor in the 1920s, they were shocked to find that the statues of ...

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.

Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ... For the ancient Egyptians, statues were more than just images. For example, newly made statues underwent a rite known as the opening of ...

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' statues. Queen Hatshepsut was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ...

They were unearthed at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri on the Nile's West Bank.

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

The vast majority of the statues have been 'deactivated.'" This isn't to say that Hatshepsut wasn't a target of political persecution after her death. "There is no doubt that Hatshepsut did suffer a ...