An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The temple is part of the ancient Memphis archaeological site dating back over 5,100 years, at a site that was then the capital of ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

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, ...

Roughly 2,000 years ago, a traveler from southern India stood inside the sacred tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and decided to leave his mark. The man, named Cikai Korran, carved his name into ...

The history and culture of ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in the West, where the wonders of the great pyramids, the mysterious sphinxes and the tombs of the pharaohs fired the ...

Cambyses and Psammenitus . Meeting between Cambyses II , King of Achaemenid of the Persian empire, from 529 to 522 BC (best known for having conquered Egypt) and Psammetichus III , Pharaoh -from 526 ...

After a turbulent summer, Egyptian students are heading back to school. How do teachers incorporate rapidly unfolding history into a curriculum? Officials tell state media they are in the process of ...

The meticulous five-year cleaning process even involved toothpicks. The restoration provides key insights into how ancient Egypt celebrated New Year’s Day. Two millennia of soot and grime were cleaned ...

Egypt has forbidden archaeologists from excavating at a grave site after becoming enraged by their “Afrocentric” approach “falsifying history.” The chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Service’s foreign ...