In 525 BCE, Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great, successfully invaded Egypt ... Much of Pharaoh Khufu’s reputation for wickedness springs from the writings of the Ancient Greek historian ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

An astronomical event may have marked the end of one of the most emblematic dynasties of ancient Egypt. A total solar eclipse that ... It was the era of the great pyramid-building pharaohs: Sneferu, ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Ryholt believed the smaller dynasty would have ruled the region of Abydos during a time when ancient Egypt was broken into rival kingdoms. That first tomb’s owner, King Seneb-Kay, was an ...