NOVA: There have been claims that a great civilization predates ancient dynastic Egypt—one that existed some 10,500 years B.C.—and that this civilization was responsible for building the ...

Emerging out of the complex dynastic needs of Egypt’s 4th dynasty, they are the triumphant product of one of the most daring and innovative engineering projects the world has ever known.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old royal house used by a prominent pharaoh in northeast Egypt.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval ...

The Levant represented the natural outlet for ancient Egypt which exercised its political dominance since 4th millennium BC.

During Egypt's New Kingdom (1539-1075 B.C.), the ... and other elites of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. The tombs evidence elaborate preparations for the next world, in which humans were ...

and 18th Dynasties, expand the known boundaries of the Saqqara necropolis and shed light on its evolving role through different periods of Egyptian history. The excavations, conducted on the ...

Although the bottom does not survive, it may once have been full-length.(Courtesy Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) Over the two-plus years Alice Stevenson has been curator of the Petrie ...