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Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...
After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
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 ...
A long-standing theory about the fate of Queen Hatshepsut's statues has been upended by a new study. For decades, ...
The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...
When archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...
Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
A new study challenges long-standing beliefs about Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s destroyed statues, suggesting they were ritually deactivated.