The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

While the Grand Egyptian Museum hasn’t officially opened yet, it has been opening in stages over the last two years. Here’s ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

AMES, Iowa — An Iowa artifact connected to George Washington Carver's rediscovery of Egyptian blue was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, highlighting a unique ...