There is something magical about the idea of going to Egypt with the whole family. People frequently imagine the land of pharaohs, secret tombs, and huge pyramids as a place to visit only in ...

Children in second through fifth grade will listen to stories from ancient Egypt, make a hieroglyphic book mark and portrait mask, and play "wrap the mummy" and "Egyptian dice" at a summer program ...

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids! A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling.

Let’s start with this secret: Mummies weren’t spooky to the ancient Egyptians. “Nowadays, when we look at anything dead, we consider it to be creepy,” says Egyptologist and National Geographic ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

The wonders of ancient Egypt are riddled with mysteries that even experts can't solve. Experts even went so far as to create a separate body of knowledge dedicated to everything there is to know about ...