Egypt's security forces uncovered a gang consisting ... Police forces arrested four of the criminals in possession of 193 statues and a large sarcophagus. Police notified the General Prosecution ...

His deliberate strokes echo the creativity of pharaohs who once commissioned alabaster statues and vessels. "We use the same techniques, tools, and materials employed in ancient Egypt to craft these ...

Dan Cruickshank explores stories from ancient Egypt. He travels the Nile in search of the truth about Akhenaten, the most radical pharaoh ever to rule Egypt. Show more Dan Cruickshank travels the ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are entombed Eli Wizevich History Correspondent The marble head dates to ...

His deliberate strokes echo the creativity of pharaohs who once commissioned alabaster statues and vessels. "We use the same techniques, tools, and materials employed in ancient Egypt to craft ...

There are magnificent courtyards and colonnades to peruse here, as well as imposing statues of Ramesses II, one of the most powerful Egyptian pharaohs. During his reign, two granite obelisks were ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

From the British Museum's 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition, Cyril Aldred introduces a programme on the role of the pharaoh, one of the most distinctive aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Starting at £20,000 , this exceptional quartzite fragment from the Amarna Period (18th–19th Dynasty) depicts a pharaoh kneeling ... Lot 2: Rare Egyptian Basalt Statue of the Priest Pa-khar ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Now, like that regime, it is toppled, and Syrians have been ...