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

A deadly fungus behind the so-called curse of Tutankhamun ’s tomb can be harnessed to fight cancer, scientists have ...

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died well before their 40th birthday and he was on the throne for two or three ...

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

In this video, we explore the recently uncovered Tomb of Ptah-M-Wiah, a high-ranking official during the reign of King Ramses II, the third Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty (1292 to 1189 BCE). This tomb is ...

The newly excavated tomb was also in an unlikely place for a king’s burial: beneath two waterfalls and at the bottom of a slope, during the much wetter conditions of the 15th century B.C.

Ramses II is documented as having been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you’re a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between humans and the gods.

Ramses II is documented as having been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you're a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between humans and the gods.

A digital reconstruction of how Ramses II might have looked Image: Horst Krauth/DW He was 25 years old when he was crowned as pharaoh. One of his most famous campaigns during his reign was the ...