Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they found.

Apophis, the chaos serpent, was a terrifying force in ancient Egyptian mythology, threatening to plunge the world into ...

Archaeologists scanned and excavated more of the 2,300-year-old city of Imet in Egypt. Photos show the ruins and artifacts they uncovered. Photos from Egypt’s ‎Ministry of Tourism and ...

New evidence reveals that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by paid workers, not slaves, reshaping views on ancient Egyptian ...

Al-Ahram Weekly takes a trip back to ancient Egyptian times to find out what the people used to eat What the ancient Egyptians ate in the distant past has some similarity to what the modern ...