In the modern day, we may think of Feminism and equal rights between the sexes as a recent phenomenon, but in Ancient Egypt, ...

Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

The buildings were used for a variety of purposes, from mealtimes to “industrial activities” that kept the site running.

Archaeologists near Luxor have uncovered a vast 3,400-year-old royal city, revealing new details about daily life during one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful eras.

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...

Looking for the best books on Ancient Egypt? Here’s our curated reading list – from beginner-friendly texts to academic classics and engrossing novels.

Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...

NEW YORK – The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s ...