Dr Zahi Hawass, a renowned Egyptologist, says he believes he is close to making the landmark discovery in Egypt's Valley of ...

Joyce Tyldesley is Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology at the ...

Nefertiti was an ancient Egyptian queen consort who was likely King Tut's stepmother and may have ruled as a pharaoh in her own right. She lived during the 18th dynasty during the 14th century B.C., ...

Discovering Nefertiti's tomb would resolve long-standing debates, such as whether she ruled as a pharaoh under the name ...

Zahi Hawass says he hopes to discover the tomb of Nefertiti before he retires, and he believes he's getting close.

On a sunny afternoon on Dec. 6, 1912, an Egyptian worker at a dig along the banks of the Nile came across what may be the most striking find in the history of Egyptology. Ludwig Borchardt, the German ...

The discoveries of an archaeological team in Egypt are fueling speculation that a woman could have been one of the first pharaohs of the ancient kingdom. A team in Abydos, which is an area along the ...

The tendency to view history “through the lens of our own era” has become more pronounced in recent years. To measure this unfortunate tilt, one could do worse than compare Stacy Schiff’s “Cleopatra: ...