A popular ancient name for Egypt was "Kemet," which means the "black land." Scholars generally believe that this name derived ...

It seems plausible that the beginning of the settlement of the children of Israel in the eastern Nile Delta—dated to ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt ’s earliest ...

These are wooden sailing vessels like the one fictional detective Hercule Poirot sailed on Death On The Nile. This is a ...

Yet what we do know is that ancient Egyptians were quite attuned to both astronomy — following cyclic phases of the moon and ...

When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who ...

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...