A remarkable scene at the Grand Egyptian Museum shows Hatshepsut and Thutmose III depicted back-to-back, the same size—proof they ruled as equals. But their relationship evolved: she knew him as a ...

Years after Hatshepsut’s death, her images were systematically defaced—her name chiseled out, statues beheaded, and obelisks walled off. For over a century, historians blamed Thutmose III, calling it ...

Quartzite tablet (left) with Hatshepsut cartouche; temple blocks (center and right) with bas-reliefs Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca.

While excavating a palace at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel in the 1930s, a team of University of Chicago archaeologists uncovered a small ceramic jug containing 44 silver objects. The ...