The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before the founding of Alexandria in 331 B.C. But earthquakes and tidal waves ...

Ancient Egypt: Facts about the ancient civilization known for its pyramids, mummies and pharaohs Ancient Egyptians drew the Milky Way on coffins and tombs, linking them to sky goddess, study finds ...

Join National Geographic’s cameras as they follow teams across Egypt on the front line of archaeology, through a full season of excavations. Crawling beneath pyramids, uncovering long lost tombs and ...

Ancient Egypt breakthrough as 3,500-year-old discovery fuels country's hopes Archaeologists have discovered the tombs of three prominent Ancient Egyptians dating back over 3,500 years.

CAIRO (AP) — An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago, Egyptian ...

A team of archeologists in Egypt have discovered the 4,000-year-old tomb of a renowned royal doctor who was likely a venom expert. The remains were uncovered in Saqqara, the site of the ancient ...

It tells the story of his education at the court of Menkaure, an ancient pharaoh who was born in 2532 B.C. and died in 2504 B.C. during Egypt's Old Kingdom, which lasted from around 2700 B.C. to ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the ...

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