Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus. Jews celebrate the freeing of Israelite slaves from Egypt and Moses guiding them to the Promised Land. The ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old royal tomb from an obscure line of pharohs whose very existence has been in ...

These Egyptian Pharaohs were not to be messed with. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down the most ferocious, ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

Archaeologists found ancient jars used for holding the dead person’s organs and hundreds of statues carved to look like the deceased.

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

Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld. Many of history’s earliest pharaohs also chose to be interred there inside a sprawling ...

Believed to be the burial place of Osiris, god of the netherworld ... resting place of the first pharaohs, holding great significance for early Ancient Egyptian power structures and political ...

Carved out of a single block of stone, the throne on which Khafre is seated features lion paws, hieroglyphics, a royal cobra and the Egyptian god Horus. The pharaoh is also wearing a lined headdress – ...

The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's packaging suggests that this individual was a very important figure in ancient Egyptian society ... four sons of the god Horus, child of Isis.