A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

The ruins were considered lost until 1996, when construction began on the city's Museum of Modern Art ... artifacts of ...

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When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose ...

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Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' ...

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...