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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb and mummy of a previously unheard-of pharaoh. Woseribre Senebkay was found close to a larger burial site in Abydos, which researchers unearthed earlier this ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

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, ...