In the shadows of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, Queen Ankhesenamun refused to remarry her husband’s vizier. A Hittite prince died on his way to Egypt—and the consequences changed empires. Stimulus check ...
On a sunny afternoon on Dec. 6, 1912, an Egyptian worker at a dig along the banks of the Nile came across what may be the most striking find in the history of Egyptology. Ludwig Borchardt, the German ...
At the Saqqara necropolis, located just southwest of Giza in Egypt, the 4,500-year-old tomb of an Egyptian prince was uncovered. Prince Waserif Re was the son of King Userkaf, who founded ancient ...
In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...