Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Magic was a part of everyday life for the ancient Egyptians. They believed that dark powers were everywhere and that they ...

Egypt was home to the first known scientist, Imhotep, a brilliant Black physician. Famous for designing King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the Egyptian polymath Imhotep (Greek: Imouthes, c.

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

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We have spent most of our history as oppressed people. For almost two thousand years, we were scattered across the world; in over one hundred countries. Despite all this, we survived and continue to i ...

Governor of Luxor, Abdel-Matallab Emara, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mohamed Ismail, and I, as the head of the Egyptian mission at Luxor ... contribution to our ...

In the 1st century AD, geographer Strabo pointed out a stele on the Isthmus of Corinth ... Instead, they built an ancient Egyptian mechanism. The boats rolled across the isthmus upon tree trunks, just ...

This stele, discovered in Thebes in 1896, mostly details the Egyptians’ victory over the Libyans and their ... one that boasts of this people’s near destruction at the hands of one of the ancient ...

Last week, the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage, in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, unearthed remarkable traces of ancient life near ... era influenced ...