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Ancient Egyptian queen’s statues were not destroyed out of hatred but ‘deactivated’, study finds
An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the persecution of her memory, as previously believed, but ritually “ …
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The Art Newspaper
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