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He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...
How did they build the pyramids? Why were they so obsessed with cats? Did they mummify everyone? Egyptologist Chris Naunton ...
From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.
Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...
Have you ever wondered what Ancient Egyptian sounded like? This fascinating journey into historical linguistics explores how researchers and linguists have pieced together the sounds of one of the ...
The treasures of the Pharaohs will be arriving in Rome this autumn for a landmark exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale.
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced Thursday that it will launch a major international exhibition, ...
What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?
Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light ...
Ancient "propaganda" that was used to support the Egyptian pharaoh who is believed to be a major character of the Old Testament has been spotted in Paris, according to an expert. Jean-Guillaume ...
Scientists at Washington State University not only discovered how to recreate the color known as "Egyptian Blue," they also ...