Who knew that ancient Egypt was full of mysteries and weird facts that continue to puzzle people to this very day?

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

Evidence from statues, inscriptions, and royal regalia suggests that one or more of Tutankhamun’s sisters may have ruled ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

The Imagine company recently announced that an exhibit called "Discovering King Tut’s Tomb" will arrive in Boston this month.

New exhibit offers a glimpse into the life of the "boy king." ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It parallels famous early dynastic scenes like those at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in the older Julian calendar. The Julian calendar was named for Julius Caesar ...

Highly Skilled craftsmanshipA ge with a meteoritic iron blade mounted in bronze was found in the tomb of a ruler from the eighth or ninth century B.C. The weapon represents an innovation in ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...