The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
The Matthews Playhouse production of 'Prince of Egypt' has added a performance to its final weekend to make up for weather ...
Among the many items sought by archaeologists, part of a statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, representing him ...
Who was the greatest Pharaoh of ancient Egypt? Was 'Rameses the Great' really that great or just an excellent self-promoter? He reigned for 66 years and marked a golden era of prosperity, ...
Making a new discovery about a land thousands of miles away can be as simple as taking a walk. Such was the case for Sorbonne University Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, who grew curious ...
The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian ...