Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

Without the River Nile, Egypt would be a desert because very ... Crocodiles and hippos were a common sight on The Nile during the Ancient Egyptian period. Hippos are not meat eaters but they ...

Ancient Egypt, a civilization that has fascinated ... a groundbreaking discovery has shifted attention to an even earlier period in Egypt's history, revealing a society advanced in ways previously ...

Making history palatable for schoolchildren isn’t easy – but the work that’s gone into this imaginative show on ancient Egypt ...

An archaeological detective story opens a door into an extraordinary moment in the history of Ancient ... period about 2,700 years ago, when kings from Nubia – present-day Sudan – conquered ...

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A long lost ancient cemetery opens the door to a unique period in Egyptian history.