Deep in a vandalized tomb, explorers find the shattered sarcophagus of the heretic pharaoh—and a stunning secret. Carved into the granite, the sun god’s rays reach down toward the coffin while four ...

For the first time, explorers enter the deep, damaged tomb of the heretic pharaoh with only torchlight. Inside, they find heartbreaking carvings of Akhenaten and Nefertiti mourning their dead daughter ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...

In 2009, archaeologists discovered a Coptic monastery in Abydos founded in the fifth century a.d. Embedded in its floor was a large fragment of an inscription that was more than 1,500 years older. The ...

CAIRO - Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, and his ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" from the time of the Ptolemaic period. When you purchase through links on our ...

Egypt claimed a 2-1 win over Nigeria in Cairo as each nation fine-tuned their preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations. Star forwards Mohamed Salah and Victor Osimhen sat out for their respective ...

CAIRO, Egypt - An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said on Friday. The ...

This two-foot-tall basalt statue depicts Udjahorresnet, an Egyptian courtier who held high positions under the final two pharaohs of the 26th Dynasty (664–526 B.C.) and the first two pharaohs of the ...

It remains unclear whether the relationship between Salah and Liverpool will fully return to what it once was, but for now, the Egyptian star was given a chance to ease the tension that had been ...