Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

Behind it lay underground rooms with vaulted ceilings: three for a king and two for a queen. In the oldest pyramids, the burial chamber was decorated with scenes from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh ... The Egyptologist led a team in 2003 to identify a badly ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else.

Meanwhile Egyptian art was also being revolutionized ... one scene even featured the king and queen about to get into bed together. The portrayal of Akhenaten’s features seems designed to ...

The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum to their new resting place 5km (three miles ...

The 17-year reign of the pharaoh crowned as Amenhotep IV was one of the most revolutionary periods in Egyptian history. After the prosperous 39-year reign of his father, Amenhotep III, the pharaoh ...

in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to power rested on blood—and nomenclature. The kings they reigned alongside were, equally unoriginally, all named Ptolemy.