Statue of Meritamen (meaning “Beloved of Amun”, a major Egyptian deity), a queen consort who lived circa the 13th century BCE. (Kurohito/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) Numerous women ruled ancient ...

Thousands high school students have been demanding better conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations. Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paintings in Tutankhamun's tomb may provide clues of where Nefertiti is buried - VCG via Getty Images/Jiang Qiming The final ...

If Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities approve plans to explore the site of the Boy King’s tomb, careful drilling could begin as soon as November Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty; Jiang ...

When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he found over six hundred artifacts buried alongside the ancient Egyptian ruler. But now it seems that both the pharaoh and ...

When Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered over a century ago, it became an immediate worldwide sensation, revealing a wealth of treasures from ancient Egypt. In the decades that followed, the tomb was ...

It’s in souvenir and gift shops. It’s used to sell beauty and healthcare products. But we don’t know where her body was buried. British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves set the Bastet (holy cat) among the ...

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, September 23: The papers look ahead to US President Donald Trump hosting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. In other news, a Haitian-born novelist, tipped to win France's ...

More than a century after archaeologists discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, researchers believe Nefertiti’s long-lost tomb could be hiding behind it. According to a Nature news release, the results ...

You can’t have missed her. Her exquisite features have appeared on the cover of thousands of books. Not to mention millions of tourist brochures. It’s in souvenir and gift shops. It’s used to sell ...