Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old limestone Egyptian statue that's unlike any previously discovered.

A limestone sculpture which blends two disparate art styles, recently discovered by archaeologists in Egypt, appears to be ...

Archaeologists uncovered a rare 5th Dynasty Egyptian family statue in Saqqara, the first known to depict a child in ...

A study appearing in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Sarah Abdoh describes a unique Egyptian family statue.

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

From Temples to Pharaohs, Queens and tombs filled with gold. Come with Curtis Ryan Woodside as we trace though the history spanning over 7 thousand years of ancient Egypt. With special access to tombs ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. This year has seen a number of artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

LONDON — For the first time, scientists have successfully decoded the complete genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived nearly 5,000 years ago. The results from this single individual challenge ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...