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The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...
Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...
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 ...
With the current political climate and national DEI rollbacks the role of Black historians, archivists and preservationists — ...
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 ...