New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

Michael Hoffen, a young author, has made a significant contribution to the understanding of ancient Egyptian culture through his new book, "Be A Scribe! Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt.

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Before it was discovered, archaeologists couldn’t read Hieroglyphs or Demotic, but they could read ancient Greek! By comparing the three texts, they could work out how ...

Experts are thrilled by this trove of papyri. Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for 40 years, has said it may be as close as ...

The Book of the Dead is an umbrella term for a series of ancient Egyptian texts. Specific utterances were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and placed in tombs, like the fragment from the tomb of ...

The lengthy document contained Book of the Dead chants (or 'utterances'), which were ancient Egyptian texts copied down and placed in ancient tombs. The scroll was found inside a sarcophagus ...

The burial chamber for the unnamed ruler was found in January in a sacred city where little is known about its ancient ...