The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Dec. 2—The history and culture of ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in the West, where the wonders of the great pyramids, the mysterious sphinxes and the tombs of the pharaohs fired ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

The long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), originally slated for July, is finally going ahead this weekend. The $1 billion, 120-acre complex just outside Cairo promises to take ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

The immersive element is still mostly under wraps, but organisers are promising a journey through Ramesside Egypt, from Queen ...