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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNWhy Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...
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A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...
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All That's Interesting on MSNThe Ancient Egyptians Broke Statues Of The Pharaoh Hatshepsut To Deactivate Their Supernatural Powers, New Study SaysWhen archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...
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ZME Science on MSNThe Story Behind This Female Pharaoh’s Broken Statues Is Way Weirder Than We ThoughtNear the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.
The statues helped the museum scientists identify the organs in each packet, Brown said. Advertisement Ancient Egyptians viewed the afterlife in a similar way to how modern people think about ...
Ancient Egypt was essentially a man’s world, lorded over by the pharaoh. But at times during its roughly 3,000-year history, women ruled, and six women—Merneith, Neferusobek, Hatshepsut ...
Does This Peculiar Statue Found at an Ancient Egyptian Temple Really Depict Cleopatra? ... “It is more likely the statue represents another royal woman or princess,” in a press release posted ...
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