Known by his superb nickname "The Magnificent", Pharaoh Amenhotep III ... Presiding over Egypt for just under 40 years during the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom, Amenhotep III ascended the ...

A small statue of a woman wearing a royal crown may depict Cleopatra VII, an archaeologist claims. Other archaeologists think ...

Archaeologists have found a nearly intact 4,900-year-old First Dynasty solar boat that carried dead pharaohs at Abu Rawash, ...

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë. The art adorning this fourth-century B.C. tomb is ...

The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are ...

In addition to stapling the entire Aegean from Troy onto Pharaoh's already considerable map of Egypt, the Levant, and Central ...

Ramesses II - the third Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty - lived to the grand old age of 91 and is regarded as one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs. He became King in 1279 BC, when he was in his ...

She said the first thing that had struck her was how Amenhotep I's facial features resembled those of his father Ahmose I, the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty, with a narrow chin ...

On a summer noon in July, a 2.4-meter-tall, two-ton statue was slowly placed onto its pedestal at the south gate of the Shanghai Museum. The statue belonged to Merneptah, the fourth Pharaoh of Egypt's ...