As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.

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

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

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands.

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' ...

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose ...

Ancient Egyptian custom barred women from the title of pharaoh, but in 1473 B.C.E., Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh anyways. She led Egypt for 22 years in all.

Scientists believe they've worked out why statues of one of Egypt's most overlooked rulers were destroyed - and even ...

The question of why her impressive reign was so methodically scrubbed has attracted significant debate, but in new research ...