Buried for 4,500 years in Egypt's scorching sands, a ceramic pot preserved a laborer's skeleton that now upends long-held ...

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, ...

Cambyses and Psammenitus . Meeting between Cambyses II , King of Achaemenid of the Persian empire, from 529 to 522 BC (best known for having conquered Egypt) and Psammetichus III , Pharaoh -from 526 ...

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 ...

It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, faint carvings ...

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th ...

Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian laborers unearthed the tomb of ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb ...

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 ...

A team led by the Shanghai Museum will embark on a joint archaeological research project with Egypt in October at the Sekhmet Temple ruins, a complex on the west bank of the Nile River. The temple is ...