At just seventeen, Princess Meketaten, daughter of Pharaohs Nefertiti and Akhenaten, faced a fate that would alter a dynasty. Her death in childbirth, immortalized on the walls of her Amarna tomb, is ...

A legendary archaeologist claims he is closing in on the long-lost tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Dr Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, boldly predicted he ...

Zahi Hawass, seen as the world's most renowned archaeologist, is racing to find the burial site of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti before he retires. Nefertiti died more than 3,000 years ago - but ...

BERLIN — Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr.

Egypt’s global push has brought back looted antiquities, but centuries-old legal and diplomatic hurdles are keeping some of ...

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline. In 1887, at the aptly named “Horizon of the Sun Disk,” a new dawn broke on ...

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 ...

A visitor on a night tour of the Karnak Temple Complex in Luxor, Egypt, on Jan 23. XINHUA/CHINA DAILY Egypt is looking to woo more Chinese tourists by emphasizing that it is more than just a land of ...