Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

A 12.5-foot limestone torso lay face-down in the dirt at El Ashmunein, about 150 miles south of Cairo, when excavators ...

According to preliminary studies, four of the coffins date to the 18th Dynasty, including one bearing the name of Merit, ...

This pharaoh wanted everyone to know it, too. Ramses II was responsible for many massive architectural projects across the kingdom, including sprawling temple complexes and extensive gold mining ...

We visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum, a spacious museum outside Cairo dedicated to displaying artifacts from ancient Egypt. It has finally opened its doors after decades of planning and construction ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

You’ve probably noticed that a lot of ancient Egyptian statues have broken noses. Now, for the first time, an exhibition is explaining why. And it’s probably not for the reason you think. As revealed ...

The show “Treasures of the Pharaohs” will include recently discovered artifacts from the “Golden City” in the Valley of the ...

Many bald men shown in ancient Egyptian reliefs were priests and elite figures, not a realistic cross-section of the wider ...