During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

The trajectory of U.S. politics is an echo of what happened in Egypt after the Arab Spring uprising that toppled the ...

A new Egyptian project aims at zoning animal handlers to give tourists a smoother experience, but the camel handlers are ...

In our museum exhibit, we have quite a few toys and games. It’s amazing how so many of them share similar beginnings and how ...

Findings uncovered in the gold mines of Ghozza are shedding a dark light on one of the most powerful ancient civilizations.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.

Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary" (Society of Biblical Literature, 2013). The word pharaoh originates from the Egyptian term "per-aa," which means "the Great House," Leprohon wrote. The term was first ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos, dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

This was forty years after the penultimate known hieroglyphic inscription. Throughout Egyptian history, hieroglyphs were always closely associated with high-society and religious display, which makes ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...