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

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.

At right is a 1926 illustration of the pharaoh. The lower part of the statue was discovered ... B.C. during the New Kingdom, generally considered to be the period when ancient Egypt was at the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient ... found on 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Paris 3 ancient Egyptian tombs dating to the New Kingdom discovered near Luxor ...

It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is called the "Younger ... was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 B.C. The New Kingdom ...

Neferusobek doesn't have the name recognition of Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, but she may have been the first woman to rule the ancient kingdom ... all around Egypt; three statues were found at ...

AN ancient 4,000-year-old tomb with mysterious wooden statues has been unearthed in ... as a bronze sword linked to a powerful ancient Egyptian Pharaoh was discovered at 3,000-year-old army ...

Their intended target? A 10-foot granite statue of Ramses II — who ruled for 68 years as one of ancient Egypt’s mightiest pharaohs — weighing almost 10 tons, Egyptian officials said.

Ramesses II was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's New Kingdom ... was one of two statues outside a massive temple that Ramesses dedicated to himself in the ancient necropolis of ...

The tomb also included smashed jars and wooden statues and the mummy was dismembered ... It comes as a bronze sword linked to a powerful ancient Egyptian Pharaoh was discovered at 3,000-year ...