Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...
While Pharaoh Ramses II was on campaign, his enemies targeted his greatest weakness: his beloved wife, Queen Nefertari. This ...
The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are the ...
The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian ...
Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.