New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country's most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister said Thursday.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

The 50-ton, 13-meter (42-foot) statue was unveiled on Sunday at the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, restored to its former grandeur due to the hard work of Egyptian and German archaeologists. The same ...

Journalists gather around an ancient sarcophagus more than 2500 years old, discovered in a vast necropolis and Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, center, in ...

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Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two ancient statues, believed to be more than 3,000 years old, in a muddy pit between dilapidated apartment blocks in the capital Cairo. A team of Egyptian and ...

LONDON (AP) — Egypt is challenging a British museum's planned sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue that is expected to fetch up to $10 million at a London auction. Former antiquities minister Zahi ...