NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...
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The pharaoh’s sudden death: The 3,500-year-old succession crisis that created a queen
When Pharaoh Thutmose II died unexpectedly in his 20s, he left behind a kingdom in chaos and a two-year-old heir too young to rule. With Nubian rebels at the gates and a power vacuum threatening the ...
A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars ...
The first royal tomb discovered in over a century is shedding new light on the pharaoh who ruled before Hatshepsut. Reading time 2 minutes A joint Egyptian-British archaeological project near Luxor ...
Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...
This pharaoh is under wraps no longer. Archeologists and graphics experts have recreated the facial features of one of Egypt’s most significant pharaohs, Amenhotep I, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty ...
CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that ...
CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that ...
Legendary pharaoh's gold bracelet stolen from popular museum was sold and melted down, officials say
A once-powerful pharaoh's priceless bracelet was melted down and sold after being stolen from an Egyptian museum, according to local officials. The disappearance of the bracelet, which once belonged ...
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