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Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...
For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
We know surprisingly little about the lives of children in ancient Egypt. And what records we do have about them often ...
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually deactivated" instead.
For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to ...
In December 2017, the ministry launched a comprehensive rescue project to restore Tanis and to develop the site into an open-air museum of Ancient Egyptian art. Follow us on: Facebook ...
The researchers shared their surprising findings in a new study that highlights the importance of using science to examine art and antiquity.
The museum consists of two floors, containing eight rooms, as well as his tomb. The main hall includes a plaster relief of Zaghloul presenting Egyptian demands to the British minister.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, is now slated to open at the end of 2025. Here's how to get a sneak peek and what's on display.
The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.