When Ahmose (reigned from c1550 – 1525 BC) became king, Egypt was in crisis. It was occupied in the north and threatened in the south. It was a shadow of its former self. But by the time he died, ...

His father murdered and the empire under attack, Ahmose I ascended to the throne in a time of chaos yet he established the last era of Egyptian prosperity. Ahmose I created a unified, confident, and ...

This concluding section of the Neues Museum tour details the climax and subsequent collapse of Egypt's prosperous Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) and the beginning of the glorious New Kingdom (18th ...

While Pharaoh Ahmose I used revolutionary war chariots to expel the Hyksos and found Egypt's glorious 18th Dynasty, a hidden ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom. Researchers analyzed artifacts tied to Pharaoh Ahmose, gaining rare access to ...

A pioneering radiocarbon study dates key Egyptian objects and reveals that the catastrophic Minoan eruption of Thera occurred before the reign of the pharaoh who unified Egypt, disproving a famous ...

A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed, extending the chaotic Second Intermediate Period. By directly comparing ...

The joint Egyptian-US archaeological mission operating in the south of Abydos has completed the restoration and maintenance of the pyramid of Queen Titi Sheri, alongside uncovering a cemetery from the ...

22 mummies will be transferred during the parade from their current place at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to their final exhibition destination at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in ...

An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt may be one of the world’s oldest weather reports—and could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East. A ...