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

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

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose ...

Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...

Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...

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

The monument stands majestically in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, where it was erected in 1836. In this relief from the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut at Karnak, Queen Hatshepsut offers two ...

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

It’s possible Thutmose II started it and Hatshepsut finished it. The monument was reconstructed by French researchers and can now be admired at the Open Air Museum in Karnak.

Hatshepsut's funerary temple is one of the most visited monuments around the pharaonic necropolis of the Valley of the Kings in Upper Egypt. But after her death, her name was obliterated from the ...

'Hatshepsut was a prolific builder of monuments, and her reign saw great innovations in the artistic realm,' Jun Yi Wong, an Egyptologist at the University of Toronto, told MailOnline.