Zahi Hawass calls himself a simple man, but the world’s foremost Egyptologist spends much of his time with ancient royalty, gods and goddesses. In fact, Dr. Hawass is revered as a legend in his own ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered eight intricately decorated ancient coffins buried in a sprawling necropolis of pyramids south of Cairo. Egypt's Ministry for Antiquities announced the macabre ...

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages from a lost book written in a language that didn’t even belong in Egypt.

Khalid el-Anany, Egypt's tourism and antiquities minister, announced last weekend that archaeologists had unearthed dozens of ancient sarcophagi and mummies discovered in a large necropolis south of ...

Two pyramids in Egypt—both more than 4,000 years old—are now open to the public for the first time in decades. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has completed its multi-year restoration of the ...

Archaeologists have found a pyramid belonging to a previously unknown ancient Egyptian queen outside King Tut's tomb, along with a trove of coffins, mummies, artifacts, and a network of tunnels. As ...

A cache of recently discovered mummified cats, cobras, crocodiles, and birds was put on display in Egypt on Saturday as more details were revealed. Archaeologists discovered the trove last year near ...