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

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

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 ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...

A wedding is usually a joyous occasion, and a royal wedding doubly so, but at this weekend’s nuptials for Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise and her controversial self-styled shaman partner ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...

As History understands it today, the first female pharaoh was Queen Hatshepsut, whose well-preserved tomb is a popular tourist site about 100 miles away. She ruled in the 18th dynasty, some 1,500 ...

Queen Pharaoh ants live for about a year and lay around 35 eggs each day. Ants go through several stages — larvae, prepupae, and pupae — as they mature.

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...