The settlement which has now been excavated was founded around 3,400 years ago and it located at a historic site 43 miles ...

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

At the temple of Khnum in Esna, as at every Egyptian temple ... Egyptians had observed the paths of the sun, moon, and stars for thousands of years, and their knowledge of astronomy formed ...

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar cult. Fourth dynasty rulers even typically adopted a suffix to their ...

The temple (an artist's conception, above; the dotted line indicates the present excavation) had at least three main gates, a central sun court ... built by the great Egyptian king Amenhotep ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

An amphora fragment sealed with the name of Tutankhamun's sister suggests the site was a center for royal wine production.

While working in the northwestern sector of the temple complex, a joint French-Egyptian archaeological team found pottery dating to the 26th dynasty, or between 664 and 525 B.C., according to a Feb.

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient tombs ... A joint team of Egyptian and French archaeologists returned to the Ramesseum for their 34th year of work ...