They were unearthed at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri on the Nile's West Bank.

"All of the sarcophagi that I've seen in Egypt were made of stone," said Browder, an author of several books on ancient Egypt. That means the top of the sarcophagus would have weighed about the ...

Sifting through the sands of the Egyptian desert, archaeologists looked for the telltale signs of ancient ruins. One ancient ...

The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on display ...

A tomb recently unearthed in Egypt shows that medicine and magic were once equally revered, and expertise in both earned a ...

At the time, many Europeans had heard of the Great Pyramids or the Sphinx, but the ancient temples and monuments of Upper Egypt were unknown. Dominique-Vivant Denon, an artist and writer ...

Largely due to his extensive propaganda, most historians cite the megalomaniacal Ramses II as Egypt' s "greatest" warrior king ... College of Canada), author of quite a number of works on ancient ...