A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

A letter dating to the reign of King Amenemhat III documents some families, including women and children, arriving at Elephantine seeking work during a famine in their home region.

Amenemhat III is portrayed with strikingly realistic features, a departure from the idealised royal image, reflecting wisdom, experience, and a deep sense of responsibility, perhaps intended to ...

This piece details its discovery during Flinders Petrie's 1888 excavations at Hawara. The Ushabti was found at the pyramid of Amenemhat II, specifically within the tomb of the great noble Horuta." ...

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...

The Hawara pyramid, constructed by Pharaoh Amenemhat III of the 12th Dynasty, is known for its unique megalithic architecture. It features three enormous stone blocks believed to have served as ...

Amenemhat IV (1815–1807 BCE) Little is known about him; his short reign was likely peaceful. Sobekneferu (1806–1802 BCE) The first historically attested female Pharaoh of Egypt.

A DISCOVERY of no little importance in its bearing on the relations of Ancient Egypt and Asia under the Middle Kingdom is reported from Toud, the ancient Tuphium, twenty-five miles south of Luxor ...

Kings Amenemhat I and Senwosret I had attempted to revive the architectural patterns set out by the kings of the late Old Kingdom.