A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, has recently identified what may be an Egyptian petroglyph ...

George Cunningham was in the desert 25 miles southeast of Cairo looking for fossilized sea urchins, shells and plants — a favorite hobby — when he spotted “an interesting looking wall” late last month ...

In a celebration of one of Egypt’s oldest and most defining cultural symbols, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir inaugurated on ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is hosting a new exhibition that reintroduces papyrus, one of Egypt’s most ancient ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

The Egyptian gods have gathered in New York. From the falcon-headed Horus to the lioness Sakhmet, the shrouded Osiris to the cow goddess Hathor and the sky-bending Nut, these divine beings—drawn from ...

Have you ever wondered what secrets, magic spells and stories are painted in ancient Egyptian tombs? Are you curious about why the pharaohs always “Walk Like an Egyptian”? The archaeological remains ...

A car, a gun, a toothbrush, a spaceship and an eye! Those are just some of the symbols you can see on the election banners on Egyptian streets as the countdown for election day in Egypt nears.

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In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois staged a giant pageant called “The Star of Ethiopia” in New York, with a thousand elaborately costumed performers and detailed sets, including an Egyptian temple. Over the next ...