A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...

A surprising discovery at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt has revealed a funerary statue that is unlike anything seen before from the Old Kingdom. This unique statue, dating back to the Fifth Dynasty ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

How do you carve, transport, and erect a single block statue weighing over 1,000 tons—out of composite quartzite, flint, or granite—using only primitive tools? In this video, we explore the standing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Trust’s placard serves to recognise ‘appalling histories of slavery and the slave trade’ The National Trust has put a ...

CAIRO – The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, ...

A treasure heading to a Maryland collector was intercepted by federal authorities, and now is expected to be shipped back to Egypt. Federal prosecutors in Maryland say they’ve finalized the forfeiture ...

Communities south of 8 Mile Road/M-102 are under a marginal, or level one of five, threat of severe weather on Monday. (WDIV) Read full article: Gusty winds, flooding possible in Monday’s storms in ...