The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, at the Cairo Museum in 2007 — CRIS BOURONCLE She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female ...

For the past century, the story Egyptologists have told about Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh who ruled 3,500 years ago, has featured an unsavory ending. Following Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C.E., ...

Forget everything you thought you knew about the Pharaohs. This is the true story of Egypt's most powerful dynasty, driven not just by kings, but by its formidable queens. From Hatshepsut, the female ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed an amazing trove of more than 1,500 intricate and colorful decorative stone blocks from Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple near Luxor’s Deir al‑Bahari. The blocks date ...