Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

Archaeologists uncovered an exquisitely decorated tomb near the Step Pyramid, belonging to a high-status official who served during the reign of Ramses II. Inscriptions, offering tables, and painted ...

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

French and Egyptian archaeologists exploring ancient Egypt's Tanis necropolis found a puzzling body in the tomb of a king.

The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

The opening of an exhibition dedicated to the special relationship between Nefertari's tomb and Italy brought the world's most famous Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass, and the Italian ambassador to Cairo, ...

For the first time, the entire treasure and the full museum reconstruction of Tutankhamun’s tomb are on display to the public ...

A French archaeological mission at the San El-Hagar site in Tanis has uncovered 225 ushabti figurines belonging to King Shoshenq III of the 22nd Dynasty in Egypt, which experts hailed as the most ...

Two-part The Race for Ancient Egypt in Colour focuses on Egypt in the years between the World Wars. In 1922, Howard Carter’s ...

Egypt’s travelling exhibitions are rewriting global tourism as the display of ancient treasures abroad inspires new journeys ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...