A mystery surrounding one of the most powerful women in history is slowly unfolding, as it appears that the mummy of Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut has been found, closing a 3,400 year-old cold case.

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...

Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh, ruling as a man would for over 20 years and portraying herself in statues and paintings with a male body and false beard. As a sphinx, Hatshepsut displays a lion's ...

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 ...

After her death, Pharoah Hatshepsut vanished from Egyptian history. Was her stepson, Tuthmosis III, to blame? Pharaoh Hatshepsut enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous reign. She built magnificent temples, ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut. The remarkable ...

The images had suffered "almost every conceivable indignity," wrote Egyptologist Herbert Winlock (above c. 1925 at Thebes) of statues he unearthed of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Metropolitan Museum ...

The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of retribution by her nephew and successor, King Thutmose III, archaeologists have ...