As pharaoh, Hatshepsut faced a religious and political reality: kingship was a male role. To be accepted, she adopted the ...

At her mortuary temple, Hatshepsut carved an extraordinary story into stone: a divine birth. The scenes show the god Amun, disguised as her father, visiting her mother Queen Ahmose to conceive a ...

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Quartzite tablet (left) with Hatshepsut cartouche; temple blocks (center and right) with bas-reliefs Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca.

In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...

At first, the team thought they had found a woman’s tomb at the end of the 30-foot-long corridor filled nearly to the ceiling with fallen rock and flood debris. As they excavated the tomb chamber, ...

When Sean Baker’s “Anora” won both the Palme d’Or at Cannes — followed by best picture at the Oscars — those honors ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

The tomb of King Thutmose II has been named one of 2025’s top 10 archaeological discoveries worldwide, according to the American magazine “Archaeology”. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...