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

In her follow-up book, The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World (National Geographic, 2021), Cooney draws parallels between male pharaohs and present-day authoritarians.

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

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

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With the notable exception of Cleopatra, the “Queen of the Nile” who took her own life in 30BC and handed Egypt to the Romans, it is often assumed the pharaohs were all male.

Pharaoh’s daughter’s coming down and seeing a baby crying is mirrored by God’s actions in Exodus’ third chapter, which has Him telling the now adult Moses “I have indeed seen the misery ...

Hatshepsut was an early pioneer of 'girl power', taking on the male pharaohs at their own game 3,500 years ago in ancient Egypt, a new study shows.

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Archaeologists were delighted by the discovery of an intact pharaoh's mummy, but they couldn't help but wonder: Who were the other 12 mummies resting in the same tomb?