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After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
Re-assessment of damaged statues depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut questions the prevailing view that they were ...
Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her gen ...
What did Cleopatra, Egypt's last pharaoh, really look like? News. By Owen Jarus published 9 August 2023 ... We finally know why Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed in ancient Egypt.
Egyptologists studying King Tutankhamun are piecing together what he may have looked like based on the remains of his mummy, personal artifacts, pharaoh portraits and figurines of his likeness.
The 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut, who died in about 1458 B.C., was one of a small handful of women to have ruled Egypt. Her valley temple was intentionally demolished centuries later.
Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over a century 00:35. Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts ...
Hatshepsut became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, at the age of 12. She was the elder of two daughters born to Thutmose I and his queen, Ahmes. She took on the full ...
After the death of ancient-Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in around 1458 bc, her successor and nephew, Thutmose III, ordered the destruction of her name and image from temples. Did the new king hate ...
CAIRO — Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of Ahmose ...
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 ...