Another mystery: After Hatshepsut’s death around 1458 B.C.E., many of her monuments and statues were destroyed or defaced.

1925 at Thebes) of statues he unearthed of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Numerous colossal statues of the pharaoh once adorned the terraces of her temple at ...

A mummy was publicly identified as Hatshepsut in 2007, but it's a little spooky, so here's a statue instead. Hatshepsut might not be as well known as Cleopatra, but she ruled over Egypt long before.

Once, a museum guard pointed to a large head of Hatshepsut. "That's my favorite," he said of the fragment of a statue of the pharaoh as the god Osiris. "She's got that Mona Lisa smile." ...