This DK book "Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Visual History" could be a fun way to teach kids about the marvels of ancient Egypt.

Dominic Montserrat, whose Akhenaten book is subtitled History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, noted that we often take scattered evidence from ancient times and organize it into narratives that make ...

With 120,000 artifacts, the Egyptian Museum is a must-visit place. It allows you to look back in history with the real ...

The Book of the Dead passage engraved on the bottom of the scarab discusses the weighing of the heart. In ancient Egypt, the heart was considered the most important organ, as it was thought to be ...

"The pyramids are there as mountains of stone proving the otherworldly nature of their god-kings. You stand in front of those pyramids and you feel it's impossible to build such a thing." Since the ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...

In fact, so strong was the desire for eternal life for the ancient Egyptians that they took things a step further, in the shape of a collection of spells, known as the Book of the Dead ...

“I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating,” he says. In the Sinai he also found abundant evidence that the ancient Egyptians mined turquoise and ...

These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast ... The hieroglyphs are phrases from the 'Book of the Dead'. Nany is at the final ...

Ancient Egypt's history has traditionally been divided into ... These spells included excerpts from what are sometimes called the "Book of the Dead" — a 52-foot-long (16 meters) copy of which ...