A young girl had been meticulously cut up and rearranged in the tomb - and now, researchers think they know why ...

Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

A vast tunnel has been discovered underneath the ruined city of Taposiris Magna, and it is hoped that its uncovering will ...

Actress Hanan Motawie has been cast as Queen Hatshepsut in a new play titled 'Hatshepsut: Throne and Love', coming soon to ...

We're replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen - all in one place. The banker turned archaeologist who led the discovery of the tomb of ...

Egypt is now malaria-free after 5,000 years. This video explores the global impact of malaria, the efforts made to combat the disease, and the specific measures taken to eradicate malaria in Egypt.

The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

After the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE, many statues of her were destroyed. Archaeologists believed that they were targeted in an act of revenge by Thutmose III, her successor.

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...