When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

Ancient Egypt was ruled for millennia by a series of pharaohs. Historians have broken up this period into dynasties, in which the rulers were either related to one another or derived power from a ...

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at ...

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the ...

Egyptian archaeologists in North Sinai have discovered a more than 3,000-year-old fortress that once defended an ancient ...

A recent study by Michelle Langley, Anna Stevens, and Christopher Stimpson, which was conducted as part of the Amarna Project through the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of ...

The carbon-14 analysis produced striking results that challenge conventional wisdom about Bronze Age chronology. When comparing uncalibrated radiocarbon dates from the Egyptian artifacts with robust ...

One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years took place at the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the ...

The tomb of Amenhotep II is an example of the fully developed New Kingdom style. A sequence of descending stairways and corridors leads to a well shaft, with a lateral chamber to the north. The path ...

The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the ...

Archaeologists found a bone whistle used by ancient Egyptian guards to warn of grave robbers, shedding light on how royal ...