Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

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

How a Met security guard's sculpture landed in museum's exhibit 02:28. New York City — At times, Armia Khalil felt like he was whittling his life away after he immigrated to New York from Egypt ...

For example, during one brief yet notable episode in Egyptian history during around 1350 BC, the pharaoh Akhenaten instituted sweeping changes in Egyptian society, including moving the capital to a ...

In the heart of Cairo, a new generation of Egyptian women is shimmying to rewrite the story of belly dance, an art form once ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s breathtaking exhibition, “The Dawn of Egyptian Art,” you won’t see any of that. This show covers the years between about 3900 B.C. and 2649 B.C., the period before ...

What care I that some millions of wretched Israelites died tinder Pharaoh's lash or Egypt's sun? It was well that they died that I might have the pyramids to look on, or to fill a musing ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

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

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

Egypt has been a perennial source of fascination in both Europe and the United States. It was already an ancient civilization when the ancient Greeks and Romans looked to it for inspiration ...