The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought along an 'army' of scholars, whose studies of this ancient culture became the foundation of Egyptology. Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting “Bonaparte Before ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

Inspired by his parents’ real-life love story across countries, filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky threads a poignant, if at times ...

Terrorists opened fire at a mosque in North Sinai, Egypt, killing more than 300 people present there for Friday prayers.

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...