Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian ... Greek rule in Egypt following the Late Period, after Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s top generals, founded a new dynasty of pharaohs ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ...

After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Egyptian archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Pharaoh Userkaf's son in Saqqara, revealing a rare pink granite false door and ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement ... The New Kingdom was the height of Egypt’s splendor in antiquity. It gave birth to legendary 18th and 19th Dynasty pharaohs such as Tutankhamun (nobody ...

The settlement offers groundbreaking insights into Egypt’s most famous pharaoh dynasty, with clues about ... archaeologists also say they discovered an ancient city buried below Egypt’s ...

especially involving some of Ancient Egypt's iconic figures whose legacy ... Seti II, mentioned in the recovered fragments, ruled during the 19th Dynasty (c. 1292–1189 B.C.), a time that also ...