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

Hatshepsut rose to power in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty as regent, then as Pharaoh, guiding one of the most prosperous and peaceful ...

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

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, ...

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

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in 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 ...

Dec. 2—The history and culture of ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in the West, where the wonders of the great pyramids, the mysterious sphinxes and the tombs of the pharaohs fired ...

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...