Discover why the ancient Egyptians invested so much in life after death. Were ancient Egyptians obsessed with death? That common misconception hides the true relationship between life and death in ...

What was it like to live in ancient Egypt during an era of sweeping change? Although we can't put ourselves in the shoes of ancient Egyptians, we at least know how one of them may have lived now that ...

A 3,300-year-old whistle, carved from a cow's toe bone, has been uncovered at Akhetaten, present-day Amarna, an ancient Egyptian capital founded by Tutankhamun's father. This rare discovery offers a ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...

Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Rock-cut tombs housed the burial of an Egyptian man who lived during the Old Kingdom nearly 5,000 ...

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the country’s tourism ...

NEW YORK – The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s ...