The tomb, adorned with Egyptian-style relief carvings, dates to the second century B.C. Matt Stirn Around 1500 B.C., Egypt’s pharaohs marched south along the Nile and, after conquering Kerma ...

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near ... discoveries may be found in period Egyptian writings that mention notables ...

In a discovery that has sent shockwaves through the archaeological and historical communities, an ancient book was unearthed beneath the Nile River ... ever recorded in Egyptian history, raising ...

Merer, who accounted for his time in half-day increments, mentions stopping at Tura, a town along the Nile famous for its ... Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist, and formerly the chief ...

Blocks found with dates from all seasons in the Egyptian calendar suggest the pyramids were built year-round and not just when the Nile was in flood. Giza pyramids 19th-century engraving (left ...

A cruise down the Nile and a few days of discovery in Cairo ... However, as if by way of consolation, the Grand Egyptian Museum had just opened less than a mile down the road.

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as ... “a special mix of ecological growing conditions along the Nile River,” according to Strianese — and significant understanding of ...

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Ancient Egyptian person: Ok, we’re good at farming, but we’re not perfect. The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in ...

Set against an epic landscape of sweeping Egyptian desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of ...

Crocodiles and hippos were a common sight on The Nile during the Ancient Egyptian period. Hippos are not meat eaters but they can still be very dangerous to humans. In fact, some people think it ...

However, as if by way of consolation, the Grand Egyptian Museum had just opened ... The centrepiece of our trip was to be a ...