Before the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the area that the lake now occupies was a significant part of the region of Nubia, home to several pharaohs of Egypt and empires including the Kush ...

Nubia in the New Kingdom: the Egyptians at Kurgus by Vivian Davies, former Keeper of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum – Thursday 11 July Colloquium – Nubia in the New Kingdom: lived experience, ...

The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Archaeologists hailed the discovery of an intact Ptolemaic temple pylon in Sohag, a city on the western bank of the Nile in ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered an impressive Egyptian temple dedicated to a fertility god that dates back over 2,000 years. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities released a statement ...

Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. The discovery included a trove of ...

This fragment of a relief showing dancers and musicians was found in a 19th-dynasty tomb within the necropolis of Saqqara, near the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis in Lower Egypt. A.

Researchers discovered the burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian priestess Idy, daughter of the regional governor Djefaihapi I, in a previously inaccessible section of his monumental tomb from ...

What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt that now stands in the British Museum in London.