Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

Even Tutankhamun—whose brief reign has been a subject ... Dominic Montserrat, whose Akhenaten book is subtitled History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, noted that we often take scattered evidence ...

Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that once adorned the 2,000-year-old ...

It was already fashionable in ancient times, whether in Egypt or ancient Rome ... of the Invisible Sex," Mithu Sanyal has studied the history of the female genitalia in depth.

The gold sword - bearing the name of Pharoah Ramesses II - was among a trove of artifacts found inside a 3,200-year-old ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

In the middle of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, almost 4,000 years ago ... parts of which probably go back to the 27th century BCE, an Ancient Near Eastern king struts his power like a wild bull ...

Zahi Hawass announces the discovery of the largest, most complete ancient city in the Valley of the Kings area in Egypt.

Egyptian archaeologists have announced that they recently discovered a bronze sword bearing the symbol of King Ramesses II, ...

With the introduction of Buddhism into China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells gradually became important musical instruments for Buddhism. As the saying goes, "There are bells at every temple.

This is where our history of Egypt begins ... discovered beneath the desert sands revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web site will show you science in action—bringing you face ...