The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient city of Memphis.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine (THE CONVERSATION) When Napoleon embarked ...

Ancient Egyptian art often shows men with bald or shaved heads, but this was not a sign of age or illness. It symbolized hygiene, purity, and social status. Priests and nobles shaved their heads to ...

Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted some 3,000 years; the show, which runs into January, covers all periods and features over 200 objects, from huge limestone statues to tiny golden figurines. It ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt, not far from the Mediterranean coast. The fort is remarkably well ...

The Hopi are an aggregation of clans that came together at the “center-point” ( Tuuwanasavi) in northern Arizona during the course of their migrations. Because they are not a monolithic tribe, the ...

After five years travelling the other side of the world, a blockbuster exhibition on ancient Egypt complete with more than 10 mummy cases is on show in Leiden. Discovering Ancient Egypt, open this ...

Wake up to History and the Sunshine on the Nile. This is not the Egypt you have visited on postcards”. Each day at Luxury Nile Cruises is a combination ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the New Kingdom's largest fortresses in North Sinai's Sheikh Zayed, spanning 8,000 sqm along the ancient Way of Horus. Dating to 1550–1070 BC, the site ...