King Midas is the stuff of legend. Ancient Greek tales tell of a Phrygian ruler granted the power to turn everything he ...

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum is ... lined with statues of pharaohs ascend to the 12 exhibition halls. With a laser pointer, General Moftah indicates the shallow pool in the granite floor where ...

CAIRO, April 20 — Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Userkaf’s son and a statue of Pharaoh Djoser during excavations in the Saqqara area south of the Egyptian ... ministry said. A huge ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an ... one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. The city, about 300 miles south of Cairo, was a burial place for early pharaohs, and a necropolis ...

This statue of ... that the granite carving may have been painted in ancient times, according to The British Museum. Ramesses II was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's New Kingdom ...

Visitors are first greeted by a colossal 3,200-year-old statue of one of ancient Egypt’s legendary pharaohs ... Each piece, including huge royal busts carved in granite, the gold necklaces ...

This whole story was told in an exhibition at the British Museum in the northern winter of 2022-23, Hieroglyphics: unlocking ancient Egypt ... pharaoh as ruler, like the head from a colossal ...

Nearly 3000 years of ancient Egyptian history is on display at Pharaoh, the NGV’s latest Winter ... could even handle the weight of the largest statues – some upwards of 2.5 tonnes. “There’s a huge ...