When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt ’s earliest ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

Some candidates include kings named Senaiib and Paentjeni who we know from monuments at Abydos - they ruled in this era - but whose tombs have not been found," University of Pennsylvania Egyptian ...

Still, he could help illuminate a forgotten era of Egyptian history from about 1640 BCE to 1540 BCE, when warrior pharaohs battled each other for territory. "It's a really fascinating period of ...

The tomb dates to a time known as the Second Intermediate Period that ran from 1640 B.C. to 1540 B.C. and bridged the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras when Egyptian pharaohs were among the most ...

because it was in this period of political decay and fragmentation,” said Josef Wegner, an Egyptologist and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the ...