Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

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

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

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

Even before it opened this week, the Grand Egyptian Museum looked to be making history. On Wednesday, Egypt will finally open doors to some of the 700,000 years' worth of artifacts to the public.

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization.

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

For decades, as archaeologists dug into the history buried in the Valley of the Kings, Egyptians were laborers, never discoverers. Not on this dig.

The tomb of an ancient Egyptian royal physician, who also had the role of being a magician, has been unearthed in Saqqara.