Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. GM lays off more than 1,700 at ...

These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art forms ...

Here are some long hidden artifacts—from King Tut's treasures to underwater antiquities—getting their debut at the Grand ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

The tomb of Amenhotep II is an example of the fully developed New Kingdom style. A sequence of descending stairways and ...

The plague theory emerged primarily from ancient texts rather than physical evidence. Hittite plague prayers from the late 14th century BC describe a devastating epidemic that allegedly originated ...

After five years travelling the other side of the world, a blockbuster exhibition on ancient Egypt complete with more than 10 ...

which is one of the oldest and best-preserved of its kind from ancient times. The colossus of Ramesses II that stands at 11 ...

Whether it's an ancient death mask found on an Egyptian sarcophagus or the selfie you have just cropped on your phone, we have been creating portraits for centuries. So why do we love them so much?

Over a century after its discovery, King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings faces its greatest ...

Egypt opened the Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday with a pageant on the Giza Plateau, where President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi cut the ribbon before delegations from 79 countries. The government pitched ...