March is Women’s History Month, but celebrating the women, well-known or not, who make our present existence more meaningful with the inspiration of their lives, should be a year-round ritual.

Being laid to rest in an Egyptian pyramid is traditionally assumed to have been an honour reserved for the wealthy nobility.

Pharaoh Khufu is one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs due to his magnificent tomb, but his body might not exist anymore.

The museum's renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries are the second part of the Museum’s Building Transformation ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Tributes have been paid to a Yorkshire-born dancer who became artistic director of the world-famous Moulin Rouge in Paris, ...

Matthew Shaer is a correspondent for Smithsonian. A frenzy of conflicting scientific analyses have made the famous pharaoh more mysterious than ever The ramifications of the proposed route have ...

west of the famous Valley of the Kings burial site. Pieces of pottery and other evidence found inside the sprawling underground tomb revealed that it belonged to Thutmose II, a young pharaoh who ...

The ant Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus) is commonly known as the Pharaoh ant. This species is believed to be native to Africa, but it can currently be found throughout the United States.

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...