The fortress was erected during the New Kingdom, which spanned from 1550 to 1070 B.C., making it at least 3,000 years old. Pharaohs in this period, considered to be the golden age of ancient Egypt, ...

Khentika’s tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade. Mastabas were rectangular, ...

Long before the pyramids rose, Egypt’s dead were buried in strange oval tombs. Now, over a hundred graves have been uncovered—some older than recorded history itself.

Three 3,000-year-old tombs unearthed in Luxor's Dra Abu el-Naga reveal the lives of New Kingdom officials—scribes, temple ...

Prince Khaemwaset, born in the 12th century BCE, was an archaeologist of his own already ancient civilization. You could call ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion ...

It's described as Ancient Egypt's most important religious complex, but the earliest occupation of the Karnak Temple has long ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Saturday opened a tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in ...

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Archaeologists found a bone whistle used by ancient Egyptian guards to warn of grave robbers, shedding light on how royal ...