Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Before Egypt’s dynasties, rural rituals and astral burials shaped beliefs that later defined the divine and sacred order.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a royal tomb linked to King Midas' family in Turkey, revealing bronze vessels and insights ...

Contrary to popular belief, and the amount of gold and riches found inside, King Tutankhamun’s tomb was indeed robbed twice, shortly after it was built. There is only one tomb so far that ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

In a “first time” revelation, the Egyptian government has announced an ancient tomb uncovered in Egypt belongs to King Thutmose II. This remarkable discovery is pegged as the most significant ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...