The “elegant” face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura on Saturday in his first ...

Rising from the sands of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, the Oblisco Capitale tower, a proposed 1,000-meter skyscraper, ...

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Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

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