He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

How did they build the pyramids? Why were they so obsessed with cats? Did they mummify everyone? Egyptologist Chris Naunton ...

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light ...

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.

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

The three men held various positions, at the Temple of Amun and Luxor city, and their tombs were constructed in similar ways.

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...

Set in a fantastical version of ancient ... Egyptian royal family, living a life of privilege. He shares a close bond with his adoptive brother, Ramses (Joel Edgerton), who is destined to become ...

Aymen Ashmawy, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector ... bearing the five titles of King Psamtik I, and the names of the two kings "Waha Ip-Ra" and "Ahmose II" of the 26th dynasty ...

He is arguably Ancient Egypt’s best-known pharaoh, whose tomb was uncovered almost intact 100 years ago by British archaeologist Howard Carter. Now a sell-out “immersive” exhibition featuring a ...