Each block, quarried during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt, is larger than the famous Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek and estimates say that each weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons.

There is perhaps no institution on Earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Archaeologists have uncovered vestiges of the ancient past in Sinai. A 2,000-year-old limestone road revealed an even older ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times ... At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, ...

This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky as a testament to one of the greatest civilizations on earth. Here, on the plateau of ...

Explore the amazing artefacts from Ancient Egypt including: pyramids, temples and the Rosetta Stone. How did ancient Egyptian civilisation end? Learn what happened to the ancient Egyptians and ...