Circa 1850-1700 B.C., late Middle Kingdom, electrum over plaster Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund and Edwards S. Harkness gift, 1913 This double crown visually united the lands upon the head ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh at Luxor, which is built on the ancient city of Thebes — the first such find in the area since King Tutankhamun’s resting place ...

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 ...

The joint Egyptian-French archaeological mission has made a significant discovery under the waters of the Nile in Aswan. The mission, composed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and Paul ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Signs of water damage, and the clean sweep of the pharaoh’s funerary items, suggest the contents of the tomb were rescued ...

Pharaohs ruled Egypt from around 2900 BC to 332 BC. Prior to this study, the earliest known examples of Egyptian mummification practices came from the late Old Kingdom period ...

Archaeologists working at the southern Egyptian site of Abydos have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh: Woseribre Senebkay -- and the first material proof of a forgotten Abydos ...

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. Meroë’s Powerful Sisters The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë.

Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs, has been confirmed by the New Kingdom Research Foundation, a British-Egyptian archaeological team led by Piers Litherland.

Preliminary research at the site has indicated that the structure dates back to the reign of King Thutmose III, the sixth pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom period.