Archaeologists excavating a tomb at Egypt's Umm El Qa'āb necropolis just unearthed hundreds of wine jars dating back 5,000 ...

Kings and Generals continues its Ancient Civilizations series with an exploration of how the ancient Egyptians understood ...

To the ancient Egyptians, pharaohs were gods ... Even so, new light continues to shine on the queen who would be king. In 2007, Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass identified a previously excavated ...

The ancient Egyptians were ruled by kings and queens were called pharaohs. Religion was an important part of their civilisation. They worshipped over 2,000 gods and goddesses! The ancient ...

The ancient Egyptians built massive public monuments ... The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near Luxor.

Text by Isma'il Kushkush; Photographs by Matt Stirn Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a necropolis for the kings and queens of ... derived from an ancient Egyptian word for gold ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs ... to the greatness of the Nubian kings and queens. Located in the desert sands near the Nile in modern Sudan, the ancient culture of Nubia played a ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit of the ... The tomb belongs to Prince Userefre, also spelled Waser-If-Re, the son of King Userkaf, also spelled Wserkaf a pharaoh who reigned around ...

Which became quite a thing for the Ancient Egyptians, as King Tut’s remains would demonstrate ... or the pyramids of the Queens. Of the larger, the first, smaller pyramid is Menkaune (Mykerinus ...

The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times and continue to inspire wonder in the tourists, mathematicians, and archeologists who visit, explore, measure, and describe ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in the afterlife, researchers say.