Nefertiti was a Queen during Ancient Egypt's peak of wealth and power. Alongside her husband, she initiated a religious ...

The discoveries of an archaeological team in Egypt are fueling speculation that a woman could have been one of the first pharaohs of the ancient kingdom. A team in Abydos, which is an area along the ...

From Hatshepsut, the woman who ruled as Pharaoh, to Queen Tiye, the matriarch behind Egypt’s golden age, this gallery reveals the stories of powerful women and legendary kings. Discover the intrigue ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- The long-overlooked mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a ...

Scientists have discovered sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years ago in an Egyptian queen's tomb. The find, one of the oldest ever, was among the "grave goods" for Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos, from ...

Mummies from the British Museum. It consists of 140 funeral objects, including 14 mummies and coffins, masks and statues, ritual amulets and golden jewelry. Altogether, they tell the fascinating story ...

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near Luxor. During ...