The cities of Memphis (the capital of ancient Egypt) and Thebes (modern-day Luxor) are highlighted in red. | Credit: PeterHermesFurian via Getty Images A number of names were used for Egypt.

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, religions, food, people and ideas. At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations ... Amun-Ra — a god associated with ...

The BBC aired a documentary called Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered in 2014, which presented results from genetic analysis of ...

His enduring legacy owes much to the spectacular discovery of his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, which ...

Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...

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 ...

Armstrong, “Taharqa was the greatest builder among the Kushite rulers” and he embarked on ambitious construction projects, such as the expansion of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in Thebes, which ...

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.