Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and ...

News World news Archaeology 'Most significant find in 100 years' discovered in 3,500 Egyptian tomb The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th ...

In a “first time” revelation, the Egyptian government has announced an ancient tomb uncovered in Egypt belongs to King Thutmose II. This remarkable discovery is pegged as the most significant ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

A "first time" discovery of an ancient tomb in Egypt has been unveiled as the final resting place of King Thutmose II, the Egyptian authorities have announced. The remarkable find is hailed as the ...

Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

When archaeologists first started unearthing statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 1920s, they noticed ...

Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

Hatshepsut was the wife and half-sister of pharaoh Thutmose II who reigned from 1492 to 1479 BC and was supposed to act as regent for her stepson Thutmose III.