The obelisk of Thutmose ... some taken from Egypt, others manufactured at home. Today Egyptian obelisks can be found in New York City, Istanbul, and Paris. (Why this ancient 'King of the World ...

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

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 ...

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is revealing ... BCE during the reign of Ramesses II. The right-side obelisk was gifted by Ottoman Egypt to France in the 1830s and now stands at the center of the ...

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 ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

(The obelisk is an ancient Egyptian architectural feat. So why are so few in Egypt?) This story appeared in the November/December 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.