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  • We finally know why Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed in ancient Egypt

    06/25/2025 7:22:09 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 32 replies
    Live Science ^ | June 23, 2025 | Owen Jarus
    For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to erase her from public memory.Now, a new study finds that's not quite the case. Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her gender or even blotting out her existence, an Egyptologist says. Rather, Hatshepsut's statues were broken to "deactivate" them and eliminate their supposed supernatural powers...After Hatshepsut died, many of her statues were intentionally broken, including at the...