Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

But the need to remove foreigners from northern Egypt ... army. Soldiering became a career with real prospects. At the beginning of the New Kingdom period, soldiers had primitive weapons and no armor.

Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the barracks served as a "crucial military stronghold for the ancient Egyptian army on the western ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Archaeologists identified the tomb as belonging to a high-ranking military leader who served under Ramesses III, a pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt around 1100 B.C. Officials described the tomb as ...