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

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Re-assessment of damaged statues depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut questions the prevailing view that they were ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

“When I first saw the reconstruction, I saw some of my indigenous friends from Huarmey in this face,” says National ... Giersz says that ancient textiles found elsewhere in Peru may have ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

Archaeologists conducting excavations in Egypt's Saqqara region have discovered a 5,000-year-old manuscript containing a "terrifying message," according to The Mirror. Unearthed inside a sealed ...