Ancient Egypt was ruled for millennia by a series of pharaohs. Historians have broken up this period into dynasties, in which the rulers were either related to one another or derived power from a ...
Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...
What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology have discovered an entire dynasty of Egyptian kings buried under the sand in Southern Egypt. Last summer, ...
Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx around 2,500 BC – around a thousand years before the Hyksos Dynasty. Around 1638 BC, a foreign dynasty ruled in Egypt for the first ...
The recent discovery of the grave of Pharaoh Thutmose II in Luxor brings to light crucial information on the 18th Dynasty of ...
At the ancient necropolis of Anubis Mountain, the massive 3,600-year-old tomb of a pharaoh was found. The discovery will hopefully shed some light on the little-known Abydos Dynasty. The Abydos ...
A mysterious dynasty of foreigners may not have invaded and taken control of ancient Egypt as was long thought. Rather, the ethnic group known as the Hyksos seems to have seized power from within ...
A team of Egyptian-American archaeologists has uncovered the tomb of an unknown king who reigned over the region of Abydos in southern Egypt 3,600 years ago. The Abydos Dynasty remains one of the ...
A newly found pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt has historians scrambling to rewrite the chronicles of the ancient kings of the Nile. Researchers with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology ...
Thousands of years ago, fallout from volcanic activity may have sounded a death knell for a centuries-old Egyptian dynasty, according to a new study. In Ptolemaic Egypt (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.), the ...
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology have discovered an entire dynasty of Egyptian kings buried under the sand in Southern Egypt. Last summer, ...