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Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...
The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of ...
Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.
Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...
A recent study challenges the long-held belief that Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed out of spite by Thutmose III.
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
One of the statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahri that was excavated in the 1920s. It was in several pieces when found and has since been put back together before it went on display at the ...
It was believed Queen Hatshepsut's successor waged a personal vendetta against her upon her death but the dismantling of her ...
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 ...