According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history ... sarcophagus, nor mummy remains. But what survives ...

Terrible Tudors' and 'Awful Egyptians' are coming to town in shows that will bring history to life in all its gruesome glory ...

The objects were compared to similar artefacts found in the Valley of the Kings - a burial site containing many Egyptian pharaohs. Brown told Live Science: "The whole burial chamber seems to be ...

Mark Fischer via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was ... and four staffs encircled Tutankhamun’s mummy, maybe meant to represent cardinal ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes that a set of seemingly plain, functional objects are in fact a key part of the complex rituals which would ensure the ...

The analysis also identified King Tut's grandparents as the pharaoh Amenhotep ... analyzing the DNA of 11 mummies believed to be related to King Tut. In ancient Egypt, inbreeding was extremely ...

Email: [email protected] A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have discovered ancient artefacts dating back to a school known as the 'House of Life. The group were excavating an area near ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty ... and the preferred resting place for the first pharaohs. The necropolis developed over the course of centuries as more ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: an unknown pharaoh's tomb, dating back 3,600 years. The excavation, which was conducted near the Egyptian city of Abydos ...

The Egyptian people were outraged, and banished their Pharaoh, leaving his wife and eldest daughter to rule in his stead. Although Ptolemy was eventually restored to the throne, again with the help of ...