The burial chamber discovered in January at Abydos, an important city in ancient Egypt located about 10 km (6 miles) from the Nile River ... the tombs of certain Old Kingdom pharaohs.

The invention of the shaduf was very important in the story of Ancient Egypt. It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to ...

Egyptians may have harnessed hydraulic power not only for agriculture and transport but also for building pyramids. This ...

Sat on the western edge of the Nile River delta, Egypt was founded around 331 BC by Alexander the Great, the iconic king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. It was one of some 30 towns and ...

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

Situated in the low desert near the banks of the Nile River, Abydos is one of ancient ... who ruled at the height of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. Later rulers of the Abydos Dynasty may have continued ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II ...

Sissi, also speaking at the United Nations in September, put it in simpler terms: “The Nile River must not be monopolized by one state. For Egypt ... a 28-year-old woman who lives in a cluster ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently found the tomb of an unknown ... a sacred city near the west banks of the Nile River, several hundred miles south of Cairo. The limestone burial chamber was ...