This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

It was just this month that an English-Egyptian archaeological mission revealed that it had uncovered the last missing tomb of a king from Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, King Thutmose II, in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English archaeologist Howard Carter near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of Kings, Egypt. Photo acquired on ...

The angular steel and concrete skeleton of Egypt's huge new museum rises up on the Giza plains, in sight of the pyramids that inspired it. When it opens next year, visitors to the Grand Egyptian ...

Learn all about King Tut and other famous mummies of ancient Egypt. Who was King Tut and how was he discovered relatively "recently"? Who were Ramses II and Hatshepsut? Why was the afterlife so ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the first such find since King Tutankhamun’s resting place was unearthed in 1922, Egyptian officials announced this week.

Tutankhamun’s tomb may be small and crowded today, but for many people it remains the doorway into the wonder of ancient ...

The nearly 3,500-year-old tomb belonged to King Thutmose II, who reigned from 1493 to 1479 BC Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ...

Perhaps no archaeological discovery has captured the public imagination quite like that of Tutankhamun’s tomb by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922. While neighboring tombs in the great ...