After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set ...

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 ...

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this mummy was ...

The Saqqara Necropolis, the burial ground for the ancient capital city of Memphis located south of Cairo, recently announced ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

(How ancient Egyptians—from kings to commoners ... Royal reposeThe mummified remains of Amenhotep II rest in his sarcophagus in KV35. The mummy was moved in 1931 to the Egyptian Museum in ...

to apply multispectral imaging to the papyrus wrapping which covered ancient Egyptian mummies, and to writing on the wooden coffin of a mummy held at Chiddingstone Castle in Kent. The papyrus covering ...

Researchers Travis Olds and Lisa Haney from the Carnegie Museum examine an ancient sarcophagus that was painted with Egyptian blue pigment. (Credit: Washington State University) Egyptian blue’s ...

Replicas of Egyptian Blue can be found at your local art store, but nobody has made it authentically for at least hundreds of years. RELATED: Archaeologists unearthed an ancient furniture order.

However, this theory lacks substantial scholarly support. Does the Greek word for the pyramids have an ancient Egyptian origin? A theory that has some favor among linguists is that the Greek word for ...