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

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. ... was one of the most powerful pharaohs ...

When archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...

The New Kingdom of ancient Egypt was a golden age of architecture and art. A variety of factors combined to make the New Kingdom one of the most creative cultures of the ancient world.

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

The upper part of a statue depicting King Ramesses II (left) was recently found at an archaeological site in Upper Egypt. At right is a 1926 illustration of the pharaoh.

The joint Egyptian and American dig team originally began its exploration of the Ashmunein area with the goal of discovering a religious complex from Egypt’s New Kingdom era (1550 to 1070 B.C.E.).

Excavators have also discovered seven tombs cut into rock at the site: three tombs from Egypt's New Kingdom period (1570 B.C. to 1069 B.C.) and four tombs from the Old Kingdom period (from 2575 B ...

A new statue of Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub will be installed in Kit Kat Square, celebrating his contributions to cardiac ...

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old ... when archaeologists discovered a New Kingdom cemetery that dates back to more than 3,500 years ... more than 25,000 ushabti statues, ...

The new king tried a different approach - diplomacy. In 1390 BC, Amenhotep III took the throne. He was lucky: predecessors such as Ahmose and Tuthmosis III had battled hard to expand Egypt's ...

Ramesses II was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.), which saw a resurgence in Egyptian traditions after a period of foreign domination.