These Ancient Roman names have been carried by all manner of gods and goddesses, emperors, heroes and scoundrels. They evoke the many great struggles fought in war, the Colosseum, and the Senate.

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

In fact, it was such a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists ... many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones ...

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

In historical records, Abydos was referred to as a sacred city that was the final resting place of Osiris — the god ... ancient Egyptians. “The Egyptian kings liked to present their history as ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

(Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian ... showing the sister goddesses Isis and Nephthys. "His name was in the ...

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