Hatshepsut Statues on Special View

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Thanks very much to Robert Espino for sending me the above link.

Stone portraits of ancient Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut have found a temporary home in the Sackler Wing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Two granite statues of ancient Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut (reigned ca. 1479-1458 B.C.), who ruled as a pharaoh, are on view temporarily in the Sackler Wing, home of the cult Temple of Dendur (ca. 15 B.C.), at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. They'll return to their nearby gallery this Fall when its renovation is completed. The Eighteenth Dynasty monarch has been in the news as of late. Pending DNA test results, evidence strongly suggests that a mummy now in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is that of the controversial ruler.

See the above page for more.

For those interested, the Met has a lovely online photo album of the 50 best items from the Egyptology collection.