Last week we read about a black granite sarcophagu...  ...agus found underneath the city of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has announced that the sa...

It has never been easy to conduct archaeological d...  ...asy to conduct archaeological digs in Alexandria, Egypt . The city founded by Alexander the Great has been...  ...sarcophagus is eventually opened. (Image credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)

We've posted about many anamorphic art on...  ...rent buildings in the Zaraeeb community in Cairo, Egypt to create a stunning calligraphic mural (or calli...

You probably know that the pharaohs were powerful...  ...ly know that the pharaohs were powerful rulers of Egypt , but you may be surprised by what you don't know...

When we see the great pyramids of Egypt , we are in awe of how they built such wonderful e...  ...n movies or documentaries, and even those touring Egypt are given little explanation about them. These ar...  ...g Sneferu.When King Sneferu came to the throne of Egypt , the cool t...

The pyramids of Egypt have inspired all kinds of tales, from the mummy&...  ...lked to professor Ethan Watrall, who studies both Egyptology and pseudoarchaeology. You only have to turn on t...  ...od—despite the fact that the actual ancient Egyptians flat-out told us both...

The golden burial mask of Egypt ’s King Tutankhamun was broken off during an...  ...as broken off during an attempted cleaning at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo sometime last year. Under orders...

(Photo: NASA Astronauts)The Nile is a ribbon of water--of life--through the desert. You can see this especially clearly from orbit. At night, the lights of human settlements shine through the darkness, like a crack in th...

A bonfire where many of the victims of a...  ...ancient epidemic in the ancient city of Thebes in Egypt were ultimately incinerated. Photo: N. Cijan / As...  ...lot straight out of the movies: archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the remains of an epidemic so ter...  ...?), but Tiradritti noted, "In a cl...

Daily food intakes vary dramatically around the wo...  ....For example:Saleh Abdul Fadlallah, Camel Broker, Egypt – 3,200 CaloriesSolange Da Silva Correia, R...