Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Archeologists in the historic city of Luxor, Egypt have unveiled two massive ancient statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III to the public. The newly restored quartzite statues, one of which is more than ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the first such find since King Tutankhamun’s resting place was unearthed in 1922, Egyptian officials announced this week.

A team of Egyptian and American scientists found the tomb, believed to be 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos, an ancient city south of Cairo.

Archaeologists researching the ancient temple city of Heliopolis have made remarkable discoveries documenting intense temple construction activities in Ancient Egypt. Heliopolis, which means "City ...

Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

The ram heads were located near a gateway built by the Ptolemies, pharaohs descended from one of Alexander the Great’s generals. The dynasty ruled Egypt from 305 to 30 B.C.E.

The nation’s authoritarian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who himself is often referred to as “a new pharaoh” for his ambitious projects and iron-fisted rule, presided over the ceremony ...

This city was built by the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign circa 1353 B.C. to 1336 B.C.), who tried to change Egypt's polytheistic religion by focusing it around the worship of the Aten, the sun disk.

Scientists in Egypt "unwrapped" the ancient mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I without touching it. It was damaged by a tomb raider. Scientists in Egypt "unwrapped" 3,500-year-old mummified remains of a ...