Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...

Learn how forged ownership documents uncovered the illegal export of an ancient Egyptian sculpture from Luxor and triggered an international investigation.

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt's most powerful and fascinating rulers' statues. Queen Hatshepsut was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ...

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 ...

Egypt has officially unveiled meticulously restored colossal statues of an ancient pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor – an event designed to bolster the nation’s vital tourism sector. The ...

Among the many items sought by archaeologists, part of a statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, representing him ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...

The missing body of Shoshenq III, the sixth of 11 known pharaohs from ancient Egypt’s 22nd dynasty (945–716 B.C.E.), has unexpectedly turned up in the Tanis tomb of his predecessor, Osorkon II. In a ...

(Refiles to show pix available) By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Milan Berckmans THE HAGUE, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Netherlands ...

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