Makeup is often seen as modern glamour, but its story is ancient — a language of identity, power, protection, and ritual that ...

Uncovered near the submerged island of Antirhodos in Alexandria's Portus Magnus, this is the first ancient Egyptian party ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

Newly documented Old Kingdom offering tables reveal they were actually recycled pillar bases from a far earlier time. The precision of the original stonework contradicts the primitive tools attributed ...

Koshary – a spicy dish of lentils, rice and pasta available at countless Egyptian food stalls – won recognition as a cultural ...

A rare discovery of 225 funerary figurines in Tanis, Egypt, has solved a long-standing mystery.

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.

What do we know about the legendary Egyptian King Sesostris? Was he a real person? According to evidence, he was.

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, god of abundance and fertility. THE PERFECT AMOUNTEgyptians needed the ...

After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields (5.4 million sq ft or 500,000 sq m) and ...