NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

Jews the world over will gather around the Seder table this week to recount again the great narrative of their ancestors’ ...

When Pharaoh Thutmose II died unexpectedly in his 20s, he left behind a kingdom in chaos and a two-year-old heir too young to rule. With Nubian rebels at the gates and a power vacuum threatening the ...

This discovery is not merely a structural anomaly but a potential gateway to history. Hawass, the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, suggests that this passage could lead to the long-lost burial ...

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a mystery ...

Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

For the first time, scientists have used three-dimensional technology to "digitally unwrap" the mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh that had not been opened in 3,000 years. Scientists said the mummy ...

The world today finds itself in a fog of confusion. Why would a regime, already weakened and under immense strain, choose to ...