As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The ancient Egyptian potter lived about 4,500 years ago. It's hoped his DNA will open the way to a better understanding of ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic ...

In a two-part series, Zahi Hawass gives an outline history of ancient and modern Egypt similar to the one that can be seen at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation.

A joint Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has made a significant discovery in the necropolis surrounding the Aga Khan ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Egyptian pharoah's 3,600 year old tomb discovered“The king’s name was originally recorded in painted scenes on plastered brickwork that decorated the underground entrance to the limestone ...

The 5,000-year-old manuscript was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and is believed to hold knowledge about the origins of humanity and potentially serve as a prophecy ...

The tomb of an unknown pharaoh has been discovered by archaeologists in Egypt - but the king's name has been lost to the ages, with researchers now scrambling to find out who he was ...