The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

The widowed queen of the pharaoh Thutmose II ... obliged Hatshepsut to become pharaoh. Far from stealing the throne, says Catharine Roehrig, curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum ...

Thutmose II's burial rites were carried out by Queen Hatshepsut, who was his wife and half-sister. After his death, she ascended to the throne and became a female pharaoh. During the 19th century ...

Hatshepsut was another queen who became pharaoh by happenstance. Her kingship was required to avoid disorder and keep her ...

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.

Researchers propose that his eye-catching gold funerary mask may have been intended for someone else but the pharaoh's untimely death, less than 10 years after he ascended the throne aged 9 ...