Pharaoh Khasekhemwy ruled ancient Egypt during the 2nd Dynasty, in the 27th century BCE, between 2727 and 2700 BCE. He unified Upper and Lower Egypt after a period of turmoil and established his ...

Khasekhemwy was the first Egyptian pharaoh known to have commissioned statues of himself. During his lifetime, he ordered the creation of two nearly identical statues depicting him seated, which ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Wednesday officially launched the "Project Revival" on Instagram, being implemented in partnership with the global technology company Meta in both the ...

Abydos’ Umm el-Qa’ab cemetery held the tombs of 1st Dynasty rulers, including King Narmer and Queen Merneith, and the 2nd Dynasty kings Peribsen and Khasekhemwy.

Zahi Hawass reviews ancient Egyptian sites dating from the Old to the Middle Kingdom in the first of two articles.

The last king of the Second Dynasty, Khasekhemwy, built a large mud-brick enclosure in the low desert at Hierakonpolis. This is now called the Fort and covers an area of about 67 by 57 m.

Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa says they are seeking to double the number of tourists in the next five years, to reach 30 million visitors by 2028.

Khasekhemwy’s complex also had one of the niched enclosure walls which later became a distinctive feature of the dozens of pyramids built along the western edge of the Nile Valley for hundreds ...

Even though the boats were found near Khasekhemwy’s tomb, researchers think they were put there many years before Khasekhemwy’s tomb was built and were meant for a different pharaoh, possibly ...