Evidence preserved in papyri and graffiti indicate ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt to admire the Egyptian ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in ...

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (UNESCO/TBS) Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms.

Tutankhamun, the boy king of Egypt, ruled briefly yet left behind a legacy that time could not erase - the golden mask, which ...

The ancient Greeks often merged their own gods and goddesses with foreign deities in a process of religious syncretism.

The Egyptian god Montu was an important influence on the sacred and ritual landscape in the area of Thebes (ancient Luxor) for two millennia, from the Early Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period ...

The local limestone, cut millions of years ago by torrential rains to form the Valley, is of good quality. And towering above the Valley is a mountain, al Qurn ('the horn' in Arabic), whose shape may ...