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Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...
The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...
After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
There’s always a guy like Harold. We’ve now entered the summer travel season, when you can take a package bus tour to Paris. It includes the Louvre museum, so you can be jammed in with 2,000 other art ...
Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
Hatshepsut was an early pioneer of 'girl power', taking on the male pharaohs at their own game 3,500 years ago in ancient ...
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
Jun Yi Wong at the University of Toronto in Canada investigated this ancient drama by studying field notes and artefacts from excavations in the 1920s of Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el ...