Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

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A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed ...

An overview of part of the King Nyuserre temple uncovered in Abusir. (Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism) ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Koshary – a spicy dish of lentils, rice and pasta available at countless Egyptian food stalls – won recognition as a cultural ...

Hatshepsut rose to power in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty as regent, then as Pharaoh, guiding one of the most prosperous and peaceful ...

From an ancient Egyptian hoax to a mysterious disappearances and Cold War history, here are 10 bizarre facts you probably ...

It has become clear that Gaza’s militarisation did not occur in isolation. It was enabled by a permissive environment that ...

In a study published today in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated over 1,000 human remains from the Nile River Valley, ...