Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

Given the growing awareness of the museum field’s foundation in White colonial power, museums are now taking action, rallying around the word “decolonize” to expand community partnerships and remove ...

Egyptologist Wilkinson presents a clear, comprehensive and beautifully illustrated (in color and b&w) guide to the bewildering array of Egyptian deities--a complete catalogue of gods and goddesses ...

This latest volume in Oxford University Press's Places in Time series covers the range and scope of ancient Egypt by examining 19 monumental remains. Among them are Hierakompolis, the earliest ...

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt's most powerful and fascinating rulers' statues. Queen Hatshepsut was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

When the Carnegie Museum of Natural History shuttered their Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt last year, many of the museum’s priceless Egyptian relics left the public eye. More than 80 pieces from its ...

(CNN) — Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the modern age. However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence from a skull ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...