Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over a century 00:35. Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Having a lot of children can cause headaches when settling issues of inheritance. Even more so when a royal throne is part of ...

Her marriage to Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran was a political one, orchestrated by the groom’s father. It was notable at the time for uniting an historic royal family (the House of Ali ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned around 3,200 years ago, Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

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

According to a translated statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the three tombs —discovered in the necropolis of Draa Abu El-Naga on the west bank of Luxor—all come from the New ...