Shepseskaf's decision to build a mastaba instead of a pyramid has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, as it marked a significant break with dynastic and religious tradition.

Some 400km south of Cairo and its symbolic Pyramids, El Gouna is an infant in Egyptian terms, a 30-year-old town on the shores of the Red Sea, full of man-made lagoons that swirl through ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...