Picture a country where pharaohs once ruled, and billion-dollar smart cities rise from desert sands. Egypt isn’t just about ...

Egypt’s most surprising destinations aren’t in Cairo—several cities across the country are blending modern growth with deep ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

Professor of Egyptian art and architecture Kara Cooney has been writing her latest book, “The Good Kings,” over the past two years. With a study of five pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Cooney aims for the ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of the boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness 3,300 years ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen ...

Thanks to modern images of Egypt's iconic pyramids towering over a vast sandscape, many people assume this area is, and always has been, a desert. But considering that climates and landscapes can ...

DAHSHOUR, Egypt — In this more than 4,500-year-old pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and ...

Egyptian officials revealed the discovery of a mysterious, 30-foot-long corridor sealed off inside one of the Pyramids of Giza on Thursday. Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa ...