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 ...

A remarkable scene at the Grand Egyptian Museum shows Hatshepsut and Thutmose III depicted back-to-back, the same size—proof they ruled as equals. But their relationship evolved: she knew him as a ...

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, ...

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 ...

CAIRO — 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 were ...

The archeologist Massimiliano Nuzzolo has spent much of his career searching for Egypt’s lost sun temples. Created by pharaohs of the fifth dynasty, sun temples were companions to pyramids and built ...

The Super Eagles last night suffered a 2-1 loss to Egypt in their pre-Africa cup of Nations (AFCON) warm-up match at the Cairo International Stadium . Both teams used the friendly encounter top ...

Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

Don Was' Groove in the Face of Adversity (Mack Avenue Records) is both a celebration of friendship and positivity in challenging times, and a heartfelt love letter to his hometown. Sneaking out from ...