The tomb of Thutmose II, who ruled about 3,500 years ago, was discovered by an Egyptian-British team near the Valley of the ...

Visitors can glimpse at ancient ... the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period. Anticipation surrounds the New Kingdom galleries of ...

Old Inscription Reveals ‘Guide to the Afterlife’, Map Found at Ancient Egyptian Burial Site Egyptians had various beliefs ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

The tour visits imperial cities, including heady Marrakesh and the oft-overlooked Rabat, now emerging as a hip alternative.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates - Tracking down the entirety of Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s “We are lived by powers we ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern ... Physicians from Islamic countries during the late Middle Ages enjoyed great respect. Their reputation was well deserved, for ...

The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his ...