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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNWhy Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?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 ...
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Live Science on MSNWe finally know why Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed in ancient EgyptAlthough many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...
Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.
A doctored image of the Statue of Liberty wearing a burqa has gone viral following Zohran Mamdani's Democratic primary win in ...
"Egyptian archaeological teams discovered a cat temple in Saqqara and unearthed many cat mummies and cat statues. So when we were planning the event, we had cats as a theme, and then came the idea for ...
For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to ...
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