After a reign shrouded in mystery, Pharaoh Thutmose II died unexpectedly in his late twenties, leaving Egypt with only a two-year-old male heir: Thutmose III. With the kingdom vulnerable and Nubian ...

The death of Alexander the Great sparked a war for his throne. Contenders included two women, his mother Olympias and his ...

At first, the team thought they had found a woman’s tomb at the end of the 30-foot-long corridor filled nearly to the ceiling with fallen rock and flood debris. As they excavated the tomb chamber, ...

Egyptian authorities have revealed a significant archaeological breakthrough, which is the discovery of the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt for a short time around 1,480 BC.

The power that marked the rise of Ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom period rested solely on the shoulders of capable pharaohs. Such a vast realm could never thrive if it weren’t for leaders that were bold, ...

Luxor (Egypt): Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Saturday opened the tomb of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings to visitors, following more than two decades of ...

Southern Adventist University’s School of Religion invites the community to a free lecture presented by Professor Michael G. Hasel, PhD, titled “An Egyptian Scarab Seal of Thutmose III at Lachish” on ...

Archaeologists have been working in the rocky gullies west of Luxor, in the vicinity of Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud. They have discovered that a steep stairway carved into the cliff at Wadi C leads to the ...

After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her successor. Yet ...

When archaeologists began excavating the Deir el-Bahri necropolis near Luxor, Egypt in the 1920s, they discovered a number of smashed and destroyed statues of the same ancient pharaoh. This pharaoh, ...

Fragments of a limestone statue of Hatshepsut, photographed in 1929 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives / Antiquity Publications ...