Thebes was once ancient Egypt's capital and the cultic center of its most prominent god: Amun. It also was home to one of the largest temple precincts in the ancient world: Karnak. Los Angeles ...

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

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the pharaoh's capital city. Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were constructed in the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, arguably the first great civilization on earth. Today, Giza is a ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital ... Egypt from buildings designed during the "semi-colonial, semi-liberal era of the country's last monarchs", said the paper. But the architecture of the new ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

It served as a major burial ground and religious center for the ancient city of Memphis, which was the first capital of unified Egypt. Saqqara is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Memphis ...