Archaeologists recently discovered two churches at Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, providing rare evidence of ...

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations, rose along the fertile banks of the Nile River ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it ...

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample offers new insights into the potential ancestry of those who belonged to the enduring civilization.

At the Egyptian National Archives, access is a weapon of the state. Researchers are subject to restrictions intended to impede their work.

Mr. el-Sisi isn’t just indifferent to modern Egypt’s history; he resents it. The histories that I learned of from the City of the Dead get in the way of a putatively pristine Pharaonic past.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...