Ramses II built more colossal statues of himself than any other pharaoh did. The largest of them once stood here, at his mortuary temple. Weighing over 1,000 tons and once standing nearly 60 feet tall ...

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Built to honor Amon-Re (ancient Egypt's sun god) and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (who was believed to have descended from Amon-Re), the Temple of Hatshepsut stands out for its grand architecture and ...

Egyptologists have found a stone chest containing a sacrificial goose and ceramic box, thought to be a little under 3,500 years old, in the heart of a royal cemetery in Deir el-Bahari. One of the ...

The chief sculptor was hard at work on a wall relief at the Temple of Hatshepsut, a religious site on the west bank of the Nile dedicated to the woman pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1473 to 1458 B.C.E.

Egyptian archeologists say they have definitively identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, the only woman to rule ancient Egypt while the kingdom was at the height of its wealth and power. The mummy was ...

Everybody likes a second chance, and our NOVA obelisk-raising team is no exception. Though they learned a lot in the process, their first attempt failed, and they're positively itching to have another ...

More than a century after the world was captivated by Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologists have uncovered another remarkable find - the final resting place of King ...

"After the death of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut herself assumed pharaonic power and privilege, and for the construction of a temple for her cultus she selected a majestic half-circle of cliffs bounding ...