The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...

There are many reasons why the art of ancient Egypt is perennially fascinating to audiences, ranging from people’s love of hieroglyphs and mummies (which some museums are now referring to as ...

Anubis is one of the oldest and most recognizable gods of Ancient Egypt, a mysterious figure associated with death, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been thousands of years, but still, much of ancient Egypt’s mummification practices remain hidden in history. But now, ...

Archaeologists examining a 4,400–year–old ancient Egyptian tomb have made a groundbreaking discovery. The catacomb, which belonged to a previously unknown prince called Userefre, features a large pink ...

Ancient Egyptians believe in the presence of their god, goddesses, deities, and other mythical entities who signify their religion, with people being mummified to get them ready for the afterlife.

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Archaeologists working at a temple on the outskirts of the Egyptian city of Alexandria have found 16 human burial chambers there, the government’s ministry of tourism and antiquities announced Friday.