Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

A joint Egyptian-German mission has made an unprecedented discovery of eight previously undocumented storage chambers – or magazines – within Sahure’s Pyramid in the Abusir Necropolis south ...

Cairo's most popular attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, draws thousands of visitors every year. As one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, these pyramids have stood the test of time ...