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, ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Egypt. Dan is joined by Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum, as they embark on a whistlestop tour through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive limestone burial chamber was uncovered within a royal necropolis in Abydos, Egypt. Who the tomb belonged to remains a ...

The long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), originally slated for July, is finally going ahead this weekend. The $1 billion, 120-acre complex just outside Cairo promises to take ...

Archaeologists have unveiled a 4,100-year-old tomb belonging to a physician who treated the Egyptian Pharaohs. The tomb was found in the southern part of Saqqara, Egypt, belonging to Teti Neb Fu ...

Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian laborers unearthed the tomb of ...

CAIRO — The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, ...