In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female pharaohs.
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Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
One of its recent big ‘splashes’ was the stunning recreation of a Roman villa within the estate, built after extensive Roman ruins were excavated.
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