Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

These Nubian kings left a centuries-long legacy in Egypt These Nubian kings left a centuries-long legacy in Egypt For ancient Egyptians, dance was a huge part of daily life For ancient Egyptians ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... known synthetic pigment, Egyptian blue is found in some of the paint that still colors ancient statues, coffins ...

See photos of ancient ruins submitted to National Geographic by users like you. 1 of 19 This photo was submitted to Your Shot, our photo community on Instagram. Follow us on Instagram at @ ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt. This anonymous skeleton, in contrast, had been ...

What, for you, are some of the highlights of National Geographic’s Nile River Cruise: Treasures of Egypt? This trip carries the traveler to many of the highlights of ancient Egyptian civilization.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

But Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo and a National Geographic Society grantee, believes the curse concept did exist in ancient Egypt as part of a primitive ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the capital for much of Egypt's ancient history, covered 20 square miles at its largest in about 300 B.C ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. “To the King of Egypt, my brother ... Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins ...