The smell of freshly baked bread wafted through Egypt’s western desert more than 3,500 years ago, according to new findings at the El-Kharga Oasis announced on Wednesday. During excavation work for the Theban Desert Road Survey, a project to map ...
Speeding the boy king along the sand dunes of ancient Egypt, Tut's chariots were the supercars of their day.
Cleopatra and Marc Antony settled a wager more than 2,000 years ago. Now, a researcher believes she figured out how the Egyptian queen won the bet.
A chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Egypt's ...
This tiny fragment is thought to be part of a letter addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh who ruled Egypt during the 14th century B.C.
Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday two rock-hewn painted tombs belonging to a man who had a supervising role in the construction of pyramids -- and his son. It's considered among the most distinguished Old Kingdom tombs. Dating from around 4,300 ...
Legends allege that the last queen of Egypt died from a snakebite. But a new study could rewrite history.
The 570-foot-long tunnel for Seti I was left unfinished and may have been designed to house a secret tomb.
Radar imaging in Egypt's Nile Delta has unveiled the outlines of a buried city that was the stronghold of foreign occupiers some 3,500 years ago, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Monday. Discovered by a team of Austrian archaeologists in ...
Archaeologists finally have a clear timeline for the ruling dynasties of ancient Egypt thanks to carbon dating.
