The Valley of the Kings was part of a vast "necropolis" or "city of the dead" beside the Nile and the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of Egypt at different times and center of worship of the ...

This was my final excursion before flying home after a week-long trip down the River Nile, a trip that felt decades in the making thanks to my lifelong obsession with ancient Egypt. The caveat to ...

The Abydos Dynasty was one of the most mysterious dynasties spanning the whole of ancient Egypt ... Abydos, located west of the Nile, was once a cemetery for Egyptian royalty as well as a popular ...

As the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: “Egypt is the gift of the Nile” and my journey on the Tui Al Horeya has been the perfect way to unwrap it. TUI (tui.co.uk) offers a seven-night ...

As the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: “Egypt is the gift of the Nile” and my journey on the Tui Al Horeya has been the perfect way to unwrap it.

Her mortuary temple is on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, not far from where her husband’s tomb was found. Thutmose was a king of ancient Egypt’s 18th dynasty. His tomb was the last ...

All my life I’ve wanted to visit Egypt and now I’m finally on a plane enjoying an aerial view of the Nile snaking across the Sahara. This is a destination where ancient history has been ...

Since the late 19th-century, Egypt has continued to offer up astounding ... communities who found themselves settled around the Nile in ancient times, which the museum has split into various ...

A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over ...

A cruise down the Nile ... trip to Egypt, where they started recording the names and birthdays of their kings more than 5,000 years ago. Amazingly, it worked. With so much genuinely ancient ...

Cairo (AFP) – Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.