Lest her subjects resent her Roman overtures, Cleopatra embraced Egypt's traditions. She is said to have been the first Ptolemaic pharaoh to bother to learn the Egyptian language. While it was ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it.

Archaeologists excavating in the Muskhouta area of Egypt's Ismailia Governorate just uncovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of an ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

The Abydos Dynasty was one of the most mysterious dynasties spanning the whole of ancient Egypt. Centered around ... carries inscriptions worthy of a pharaoh – but no mummified body.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king who ruled the region during a tumultuous time 3,600 ...

Mr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this second site will hold the pharaoh's mummified body. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization displays a mummy said to be that of Thutmose II ...

The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since the discovery of Tutankhamun more than a century ago. The tomb of Thutmose II has been found by a joint British-Egyptian ...

It's the first pharaoh's tomb to be discovered in ... are a handful of tombs belonging to other rulers of Egypt: Nefertiti ; Ramesses XIII; the 21st-dynasty high priest of Amun, Herihor; Cleopatra VII ...