Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' ...

The daughter of pharaoh Thutmose I, she became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, when in their early teens.

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

The legacy of one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, was systematically erased by her stepson successor after her death.

The Hereditary Princess, greatly favored, sweet of love, Mistress of the South and North, fair of face, beauteous with the ...

When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose ...