After a reign shrouded in mystery, Pharaoh Thutmose II died unexpectedly in his late twenties, leaving Egypt with only a two-year-old male heir: Thutmose III. With the kingdom vulnerable and Nubian ...

If ancient wonders, mysterious temples and the steady flow of the Nile River are calling, a cruise on Egypt's most famous ...

When the country's museum collections fell into the Rapid Support Forces' hands, they became a real weapon in the conflict ...

The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor ...

Amado Alfadni tackles the painful and sensitive chapters that have marked Sudan, from slavery to contemporary political ...

In 2009, archaeologists discovered a Coptic monastery in Abydos founded in the fifth century a.d. Embedded in its floor was a large fragment of an inscription that was more than 1,500 years older. The ...

At first, the team thought they had found a woman’s tomb at the end of the 30-foot-long corridor filled nearly to the ceiling with fallen rock and flood debris. As they excavated the tomb chamber, ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...

Archaeologists working in Sudan have uncovered something that upends assumptions about childhood in the ancient world: tiny mummified faces and limbs marked with deliberate ink designs. The 1,400-year ...