At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

French researchers have unearthed disturbing artifacts in Egypt's Eastern Desert: iron shackles that were once used to chain ...

A metal brooch and artefacts representing the gods in animal forms were also found as were a number of beads, some of them plated in gold and dating to the beginning of ancient Egypt’s 26th Dynasty.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...