As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The nitty-gritty of life in previous human eras can’t always be accessed by textbook study. The flavor and feel of the past ...

After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...

Over the past 100 years, historians were left puzzled over one of ancient Egypt ’s most powerful and fascinating rulers' ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...

King Tutankhamun's legacy continues to fascinate, nearly a century after his tomb's discovery. Recent research unveils that ...

The deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists that opened the tomb of King Tut might become a treatment for ...