In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold will open at Battersea Power Station in February 2026, bringing 180 priceless Egyptian artefacts to London for a landmark exhibition.

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Archeologists find the lost tomb of an unnamed pharaoh, in a burial complex in Egypt that reflects a time of fragmented rule.

Zahi Hawass, seen as the world's most renowned archaeologist, is racing to find the burial site of ancient Egyptian Queen ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking ...

Who knew that ancient Egypt was full of mysteries and weird facts that continue to puzzle people to this very day?

Who was the greatest Pharaoh of ancient Egypt? Was 'Rameses the Great' really that great or just an excellent self-promoter? He reigned for 66 years and marked a golden era of prosperity, ...

Among the many items sought by archaeologists, part of a statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, representing him ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It parallels famous early dynastic scenes like those at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman ...