After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

Prince Khaemwaset, born in the 12th century BCE, was an archaeologist of his own already ancient civilization. You could call ...

As Egypt prepares to inaugurate the world’s largest archaeological museum on 1 November, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has ...

Belgian archaeologists recently uncovered a mudbrick structure on a hill at Thebes (modern Luxor) that is actually the base of a pyramid erected for a top minister of 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramesses II, ...

The rise of Ramses II was no mere political affair—it was a divine transformation. In a dramatic five-day coronation atop the sacred mountain of Amun, young Ramses was purified, anointed, and crowned ...

An ancient Egyptian fortress built by the Pharaoh Ramses II is revealing its secrets to archaeologists. Researchers discovered the remains of two new buildings at the fortress site in Beheira ...

WHO: Google WHAT: Google Earth fly-over imagery available for historic relocation of Ramses II WHERE: Footage available at: http://thenewsmarket.com/Google. KML ...

CAIRO, Egypt — A giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II will be moved next month to a more serene home near the Great Pyramids from a congested square in downtown Cairo in a bid to save it from corrosive ...

Elon Musk took to Twitter to share in a conspiracy theory that says aliens built Egypt’s pyramids. “Aliens built the pyramids obv,” he wrote. In a second tweet, he pointedly said that Ramesses II’s ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled two new artifacts from antiquity, a rare statue of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs and a diminutive ancient sphinx. Egypt’s Ministry of ...