The find in Saqqara included 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities. SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara ...

Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...

A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...

An "unparalleled" funerary statue of an ancient Egyptian man whose name may be Messi has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis — and it shows him standing with what appears to be his tiny wife and ...

Ancient Egypt. King Tutankhamun. This video gives an understanding of the life and death of King Tutankhamun for KS2 pupils.

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to ...

Neferkhewe and his family in shrine 31 (all photos by John Ward and Maria Nilsson for the Gebel el Silsila Project and used with permission) A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...