Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...

It was believed Queen Hatshepsut's successor waged a personal vendetta against her upon her death but the dismantling of her ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed out of spite by Thutmose III.

A new study challenges long-standing beliefs about Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s destroyed statues, suggesting they were ritually deactivated.

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...

Like Kharga, Dakhla’s prime was the Greco-Roman era. Ironically, the best remaining Roman monument in Dakhla is the ancient pagan Deir el-Hagar temple, similar to the Karnak Temple in Luxor.

The Karnak Temple complex contains a set of dark granite gateways that exhibit puzzling internal decay—granite that appears to have softened or disintegrated without external force. Modern ...

Imagine starting your morning sipping coffee by the Red Sea, and by afternoon standing at the foot of the mighty Karnak Temple or gazing at the Great Pyramid of Giza. In Egypt, ancient wonders and ...

View at the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari at the dawn. Katarzyna Kapiec What does Thutmose II’s empty tomb tell us? The newly discovered tomb reveals fresh details about the status of ...

Impressively, the entire temple has been rebuilt, having been painstakingly moved from its original location — Philae Island — due to flooding, reopening in 1980.

The latest available figures show the home of the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Karnak Temple saw 14.9 million arrivals in 2023.