Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.
Just imagine: a world without cancer. It's a tantalizing thought, recently floated by researchers at Manchester University in the UK.
Cancer was a rarity among ancient Egyptians but so was longevity as other diseases and hazards claimed their lives.
The upper portion of a limestone likeness of King Tut's grandfather has been unearthed in Luxor, Egyptian officials said.
A Roman-era mummy was recently unearthed in a Bahariya Oasis cemetery, about 190 miles southwest of Cairo.
Today, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity.
Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said on Monday.
Scientists have finally discovered what caused the death of Egypt's most famous ruler, Tutankhamun: Gangrene due to a broken leg.
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