About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is called ...

Fragments of a limestone statue of Hatshepsut. © Department of Egyptian Art Archives, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Harry Burton (1929). Hatshepsut ...

The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory at a temple site. The observatory, thought to date to the sixth century B.C., was built with mud bricks and is ...

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Text by Jeff Campagna and Tracy Scott ...

Aug 2 (Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks ...

This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted interest for some time due to ongoing searches for the tomb of Cleopatra ...