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 ...

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 ...

Recently, Egypt has been in the news all over the world — memes about the stranded ship in the Suez Canal flooded the internet, and then there was the Pharaoh's Golden Parade, a moving spectacle where ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...