CAIRO, Egypt -- The long-overlooked mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most powerful female ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from ...

LONDON — The centuries-old search for the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, could end today in a Cairo museum. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief archaeologist, will hold a ...

Zahi Hawass, a former minister of antiquities who is not a member of the research team but studied the inscription, said it's still unclear why Hatshepsut had Thutmose II buried in this area ...

Thank you for your interesting article on the identification of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt. This Pharaoh, as the young daughter of Thutmos II, was the person who Hatshepsut rescued Moses ...

The mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, was originally discovered in 1903 by Howard Carter. But it was identified only recently, ...

Hatshepsut ruled Ancient Egypt from 1479–1458 B.C. alongside Thutmose III, who was just three years old when he became pharaoh after the death of his father.

The 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut, who died in about 1458 B.C., was one of a small handful of women to have ruled Egypt. Her valley temple was intentionally demolished centuries later.

However, this mummy may be too old (possibly age 40 at time of death) to be Thutmose II, and his mummy and the second tomb may lie undisturbed elsewhere, he added. Hatshepsut's husband and brother ...

Egypt plans to conduct a DNA test on a 3,500-year-old mummy to determine whether it is King Thutmose I, one of the most important pharaohs, the country's chief archaeologist said Thursday. Zahi ...