Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

The other statue actually represented the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. In early Egyptology, all statues of the sort were referred to as "Memnons." The addition of "younger" was because it was ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the ...

The statue was found at Taposiris ... to “house of Osiris,” the Egyptian god of both fertility and death. The city and temple were established by the pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between ...