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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Visitors view the first solar boat of King Khufu ...

A new immersive exhibition is now open at South Florida PBS, bringing ancient Egypt to life! Egyptian Pharaohs: From Cheops to Ramses II is making its North American debut in Boynton Beach. Created ...

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 ...