A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...

A limestone statue discovered in 2021 at the Saqqara necropolis is upending what archaeologists thought they knew about sculpture in Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. Buried for over four millennia beneath ...

Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...

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 ...

Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a statue that he said rewrites what we know about Egyptian art history. The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...

Egypt has officially unveiled meticulously restored colossal statues of an ancient pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor – an event designed to bolster the nation’s vital tourism sector. The ...

Egypt Antiquities A hot air ballon flys over the assembly of two giant alabaster statues for Pharoah Amenhotep III, before the official opening, in the southern city ...