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, ...

No travel destination in the world offers the diversity of Egypt. The country unquestionably belongs to a social and cultural ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense of $45bn. "Sprawled" across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, the "showy new ...

Wood is rare in Egypt, and the law restricts the ... life still revolves around the Nile River. In ancient times Akhenaten founded his capital city on a stretch of desert just above the east ...

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

Child: The ancient Egyptian ... of Ancient Egypt that are still standing. Like the pyramids! Or the Temples of Karnak! People can still walk amongst the ruins of the ancient city of Luxor or ...

On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the 4th or 3rd century BCE. This city thrived ...

CAIRO — Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor, including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years. They were unearthed at the causeway of ...