Where Silence Speaks of the SacredIn the quiet village of Bhojpur near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, stands a temple that was never truly built — yet has never stopped being sacred. The Bhojeshwar Temple, ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Archaeologists unearthed roughly 1,500 decorated stone blocks that once made up part of Hatshepsut's valley temple. Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled by men, with ...

The valley temple would have been decorated with a variety of scenes, some of which can still be seen on the blocks. Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh who reigned from about 1473 to 1458 B.C, during ...

Archaeologists unearth pieces, near the Queen Hatshepsut Valley Temple's in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor, Egypt, January 8, 2025. — Reuters Archaeologists have discovered ...

The 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut, who died in about 1458 B.C., was one of a small handful of women to have ruled Egypt. Her valley temple was intentionally demolished centuries later.

Amid the temple’s wreckage, the team found blocks containing cartouches of the pharaoh Thutmose III (reigned ca. 1479–1425 b.c.), including versions known to have been used after Hatshepsut died.