Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

The celebration marking the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum was not a fleeting cultural event, but a collective ritual that reconfigured the relationship between Egyptians and their symbolic ...

It stood for strength, eternity, and the backbone of the gods—but the Djed’s true meaning goes deeper than most realize. This ancient symbol may hold the key to Egypt’s spiritual ...

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

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.