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

Hatshepsut was an early pioneer of 'girl power', taking on the male pharaohs at their own game 3,500 years ago in ancient ...

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

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

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

Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.

Hatshepsut, known by her royal Horus name Ma’at-ka-re, which translates to “Goddess of Truth is the life force of the Sun God ...

It is next to the magnificent mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Thutmose's principal wife and later pharaoh in her own right, at the site of Deir el-Bahri on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor.

It is next to the magnificent mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Thutmose’s principal wife and later pharaoh in her own right, at the site of Deir el-Bahri on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor.

His wife, Queen Hatshepsut, was one of the few women known to have ruled Egypt. Her mortuary temple is on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, not far from where her husband’s tomb was found.