The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, located on Luxor's West Bank, honors Queen Hatshepsut and god Amun, symbolizing her ...

No fewer than seven Queen ... ancient Egypt’s final queen. Seven Cleopatras: There had been ancient Egyptian ruling queens before the Ptolemaic Cleopatras – the 18th-Dynasty female Pharoah ...

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were ... and protect buildings from water erosion. "There was a temple, built by King Ramses II, as well as private funerary ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II, a ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

It can all be, I have to admit, rather overwhelming and I’d suggest anyone planning a Nile cruise should swot up a little on ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

MUMMIFICATION of sacred animals is a familiar practice in the annals of Ancient Egypt, especially in the ... the architect of the famous temple of Queen Hat-shepsut at Deir el-Bahari.

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving ... negotiate with foreign powers and preside over temples, she also dispensed justice and regulated an economy. Like Isis, one of ...

Queen of Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus, she was renowned for her passionate nature, beauty, intellect and determination to advance the interests of the Ptolemaic legacy. They were masters of ancient Rome .