Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Ramesses II, often called Ramesses the Great, reigned for 66 years during Egypt’s New Kingdom and became one of its most ...

A royal necropolis—from the Greek words for "city of the dead"—was established near Abydos in about 1839 B.C. with the burial there of the powerful 12th dynasty pharaoh Senusret III. But Egypt ...

Founder of the 12th dynasty, he moved the capital to Itjtawy and was likely assassinated. Senusret I (1971–1926 BCE) Known for his expansionist policies in Nubia and the extension of numerous ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922. Latest U.S.

Discovery is the last of the lost tombs of former Egyptian kings from the Eighteenth Dynasty, which ruled for over two centuries from about 1550 BC to 1292 BC ...

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ancient Egypt that belongs to the sebayt genre, characterized by the ...

El Lahun Pyramid. Egypt’s floating pyramid. Credit: Einsamer Schütze. CC BY-3.0/Wikimedia Commons/Einsamer Schutze. The location of the entrance to Egypt’s only ‘floating’ pyramid, named after ...