In Ancient Egypt, it was common for kings to boast about their achievements, whether they were great works of construction or ...

Hatshepsut was one of ancient Egypt’s most successful rulers, overseeing a prosperous reign marked by trade, building ...

Women in ancient Egypt did not appear to hold markedly lower social status than men. In domestic life and marriage, women often played active and visible roles.

A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be. An erased image of Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt, from a wall ...

Everybody’s heard of King Tut, mainly because looters overlooked his tomb for three millennia. Yet many more leaders of ancient Egypt are worthy of notice—not the least of whom is Hatshepsut, Egypt's ...

"One of the things that she claimed was that her mother had been impregnated by the sun god Amon-Ra." Elizabeth Day's interest in the female pharaoh Hatshepsut was sparked by a trip to Egypt less than ...

After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BC, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her successor. Yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a ...

After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her successor. Yet ...

Fragments of a limestone statue of Hatshepsut, photographed in 1929 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives / Antiquity Publications ...