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New theory on the death of Hatshepsut
A flask of lotion believed to have belonged to the female pharaoh Hatshepsut contains a carcinogenic substance that might ultimately have killed the Egyptian queen, German researchers said. Part of the permanent collection at the University of Bonn’s Egyptian Museum, the vessel was thought to have held perfume until a two-year study uncovered traces... »
Egyptian ‘Girls Gone Wild’ during the reign of Hatshepsut
Image via Wikipedia Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor of an annual rite that featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock ‘n’ roll. Back in 1470 B.C., Egypt’s most raucous rituals, the “festival of drunkenness,” celebrated nothing less than the salvation of humanity, according to Johns... »
Egypt after Hatshepsut
Image via Wikipedia Approximately twenty years after her death, Hatshepsut’s nephew, Thutmose III, set about systematically, but very selectively, erasing her name and images from her monuments. Her “representations ... »
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh is the catalogue published in conjunction with the popular special exhibition at the M.H. de Young Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum in 2005-06. The scholarly text, divided into six main sections with individual chapters, is devoted to the artistic achievements of New Kingdom... »
Egyptian archaeologists unearth false door of Hatshepsut’s vizier at Karnak
A routine excavation work at Karnak has turned out a remarkable large red granite false door belonging to the tomb of User, vizier of Pharaoh Hatshepsut and uncle of another famous vizier, Rekhmire of King Thutmose III. The role of vizier was of utmost importance, second only to the king and in charge of the... »
Book review: Truth is the Soul of the Sun by Maria Isabel Pita
Historical objectivity and sensuality of expression interweave across the entire span of “Truth is the Soul of the Sun“, Maria Isabel Pita’s new biographical novel of Hatshepsut, arguably the most powerful woman of all time. We can tell that Pita worked tirelessly and with the same level of passion with which she communicates human... »
Hatshepsut bust in Berlin may be fake
A bust in brown granite of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, acquired by a Berlin museum more than two decades ago, may be a forgery. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin have discovered the Hatshepsut stone is rich in the minerals magnesite and siderite. No other bust from the Nile region is made of such rock,... »
The Scent of an Ancient Egyptian Woman
In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University’s Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example of a perfume flacon on display. Screening this 3,500-year-old flacon with a computer tomograph, scientists at the university has detected the desiccated residues of a fluid, which they now want to submit to further analysis. They might even succeed in... »
Coils of Ancient Egyptian rope found in man-made cave
The ancient Egyptian’s secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered three years ago by archaeologists Rodolfo Fattovich of the Oriental Studies... »
"OMG you're an Egyptologist!" Dr. Kara Cooney explains why
Dr. Kara Cooney is an Egyptian art and archaeology expert. She earned her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She has been part of major archaeological excavations in Egypt at the royal temple site of Dahshur, elite Theban tombs and the craftsmen’s village of Deir el Medina. She is... »
