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 ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Egyptian archaeologists restore recently discovered artifacts by the mission of the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities & ...

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 ...

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A new documentary by Curtis Ryan Woodside, and co-produced by Egyptologists Dr. Zahi Hawass and Sofia Aziz - challenges modern preconceptions on one of Egypt’s most prolific leaders.

As pharaoh, Hatshepsut (reigned from c1479 - 1458 BC)was different - she was a woman. Customarily Egyptian culture restricted kingship to men, but Hatshepsut's determination and cunning silenced her ...

Trade Red Sea resorts for a historic holiday to majestic temples and pharaoh tombs in Egypt’s eastern city. Lapping the banks of the crocodile-peppered Nile, Luxor, once Egypt’s ancient capital Thebes ...

"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 ...

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, head of Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities & Heritage, speaks Wednesday at a recently discovered ancient rock-cut tomb at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's ...