Radiocarbon dating is quietly rewriting one of humanity’s best known origin stories, shifting the rise of Egypt’s first ...

New scientific work is quietly redrawing the master timeline of ancient Egypt, shifting key dynasties and even the start of ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Archaeologists believe they have unearthed one of Egypt’s oldest-known settlements in the Nile Delta, dating back some 7,000 years to the Neolithic era. The country’s ministry of antiquities announced ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Five well-preserved ancient tombs were recently unearthed in Saqqara, an acropolis outside Cairo, according to a Reuters report. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed that the ...

Cambyses and Psammenitus . Meeting between Cambyses II , King of Achaemenid of the Persian empire, from 529 to 522 BC (best known for having conquered Egypt) and Psammetichus III , Pharaoh -from 526 ...

Long before modern billionaires threw lavish parties at sea on their superyachts, the wealthy elite of ancient Egypt ...

A humerus or arm bone and a drawing of a Cretaceous period dinosaur displayed in a lab at Mansoura university, in Egypt. AP MANSOURA, Egypt — A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt’s Western Desert, ...