The study, undertaken by Egyptian scholar Zahi Hawass, used DNA analysis to show the Younger Lady is the full sister of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the mother of his successor, Tutankhamun.

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

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

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...

Thousands of years before Yves Klein, Joni Mitchell, Pablo Picasso, or Miles Davis, blue was famously the obsession of the Ancient Egyptians, who used different hues of the color to permanently ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a collection of ancient tools that were used in religious rituals from the Temple of the Pharaohs (Boto) in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate north of Cairo.

Archaeology & History Scientists Have Recreated the Long-Lost Formula for Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment. It started out as a “fun” museum project, but it could have high-tech applications.