Ancient images of Bes are often found in Egypt; the deity is depicted as a dwarf who, in addition to playing music and having fun, also protected women during childbirth, wrote George Hart ...

Go back in time to ancient Egypt. Thousands of years, in fact. Their influence on modern life can be seen in our language, art, engineering, and more. Gain a new appreciation for ancient Egyptian ...

This was but one high-water mark in the long African American engagement with the cultures of northeast Africa, home of ancient Egypt ... giant obelisk honoring George Washington on the National ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Herodotus’ cruise took him to the New Kingdom capital of Thebes in Upper Egypt, modern-day Luxor, where he contemplated the temples of Karnak, one of which spanned 100 times the area of the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into ... The Black American comedian Kevin Hart was forced to cancel a planned show in Egypt in February after an ...

The items spanned centuries and included a range of styles from different eras of ancient Egyptian civilization, the ministry said. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday ...