Thirteen mud jar stoppers lay on a shelf and around the mouth of a tomb shaft at Saqqara when the English archaeologist Walter B. Emery found them in 1946. Each bore the same seal impression: a line ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut's legacy was systematically erased by her stepson successor ...

Researchers turned a blurry seal impression into vectors—and realized that the king was actually a queen.

The Egyptian Antiquities sector announced this week that ancient stone blocks found on Egypt's Elephantine Island by a team of Egyptian and German archaeologists feature a rare depiction of the female ...

Egyptian archaeologists say they have identified the mummy of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, the only woman to rule ancient Egypt while the kingdom was at the height of its power. HOW DO THEY KNOW? Experts ...

The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, at the Cairo Museum in 2007 — CRIS BOURONCLE She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female ...