Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt roughly 3,500 years ago, taking over following the death of her husband Thutmose II.

In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

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 ...

The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, lie in a glass case after at the Cairo Museum Getty Images Researchers at the University of Winnipeg in ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut's legacy was systematically erased by her stepson successor ...

Back to homepage / Live news Gender not main factor in attacks on Egyptian woman pharaoh: study. Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut's legacy was systematically erased by her stepson successor ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut's legacy was systematically erased by her stepson successor ...