Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations. The first ...

One morning in Amarna, a village in Upper Egypt ... the pharaoh ordered work crews to gouge out all images of Amun in state temples. It was an act of unbelievable boldness: the first time in ...

The formation of Egypt as a unified state came when the regions known as Upper and Lower Egypt were united. According to tradition, the first ruler ... known as Pharaohs, were regarded as gods ...

the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty, with a narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair, and mildly protruding upper teeth. The researchers also established that Amenhotep I was ...

But you can afford to be vain when you're a pharaoh ... was the first one to have a peace treaty," explains Zahi Hawass, a renowned archaeologist and former antiquities minister of Egypt.