I want you to print this. It was the worst interview I’ve ever done in my life,” Dr. Zahi Hawass said of his experience on ...

Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Pétain, De Gaulle, Eisenhower… Many great military leaders, thanks to the popularity and prestige ...

Her book, 'The Future of Egyptology', lays bare the shortcomings of a discipline hijacked by European scholars and ...

Egypt’s past was never lost, but the power to interpret it was slowly displaced, archived elsewhere, and returned as ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of the power they contained.

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt may actually have had foreign roots.

Analysis - After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.

An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the ...