Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

Pharaoh Ramesses II holding an Egyptian passport may sound like something out of a bizarre pub quiz, but it's not a joke.

The burial chamber — which was found in January and features many decorated rooms and mudbrick vaults — is the second major ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The symbol is frequently seen in ancient burials — especially on a type of ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

"The rumors suggesting the presence of columns beneath the Pyramid of Khafre are nothing but fabrications propagated by individuals with no expertise in ancient Egyptian civilization or the ...

and finally found in the teaching of King Ōkhnatōn a somewhat particularised expression. A. H. Gardiner, “New Literary Works from Ancient Egypt”, in Journal of Egyptian Arch"logy ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids ... the massive structures built by Pharaohs.” Tim Newcomb is a journalist ...

the first burials of which date back to the first dynasty of the pharaohs (31st-29th centuries BC). The most famous monument of Saqqara is the step pyramid of Djoser, which is considered the first ...