Whether home to Egypt’s first pharaohs or not, Thinis became an influential political center of the 8th nome, or province, in Upper Egypt. “From the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.) on, Thinis was a ...

Donation stele of Pharaoh Shebitku, the likely historical origin of legendary Egyptian King Sesostris. Credit: Public domain. The ancient Greeks did not just have legends about their own nation. They ...

Nitocris is claimed by some sources to have been a female pharaoh of ancient Egypt. However, prior to the Ptolemaic Dynasty, there were few female rulers in the history of ancient Egypt. Many of these ...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown—and no one wore that headpiece longer than the men and women on this list. From K'inich Janaab Pakal to Basil II to Elizabeth II, these are some of the ...

The biblical story of the Israelites’ Descent and Great Exodus speaks about important events that took place in Egypt. We should, therefore, expect to find records of these events in Egyptian sources.

In a sunlit Cairo office filled with glowing screens and worn history books, where modern code meets ancient symbols, Ahmed El-Kholy is quietly rewriting history. As the CEO of Dark Pyramid, an ...

CAIRO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- In the dimly lit main hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, a small crowd gathered around the painted wooden coffin of Sennedjem, a master craftsman of the ...

In the main hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Egyptian app developer Ahmed El-Kholy stood before the painted wooden coffin of Sennedjem, a master craftsman of the 19th Dynasty ...

Moses by Michelangelo, c. 1513. Credit: Wikipedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scholars acknowledge that some legends from Greek mythology are strikingly similar to stories from the Bible. According to some ...