An ancient Egyptian masterpiece, hailed by some scholars as the "Mona Lisa" of Egyptian painting, is in fact a fake created in the 19th century, a researcher says. But the painting may conceal an ...

One pharaoh, three giant pyramids, and not a single stone sarcophagus inside any of them. Sneferu built the Meidum, Bent, and Red pyramids, yet all three break a rule every other Old Kingdom tomb ...

The skeleton of a 13-year-old girl has been discovered in a mysterious grave near an ancient Egyptian pyramid. The burial was found during the excavation of next to the Meidum pyramid south of Cairo, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Pyramid is 4,600 years old, and we still don't know all its secrets. (Givaga/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Somehow, while ...

The Egyptian pyramids have fascinated historians, scientists, and researchers for thousands of years. Despite centuries of analysis and theory, however, our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 4,600-year-old step pyramid near the Egyptian city of Edfu. It is the seventh of the "provincial" pyramids built decades before the Great Pyramid at Giza, ...

An Italian archaeology expert has published an article suggesting that the Meidum Geese, an Egyptian tomb painting, may be a forgery. Francesco Tiradritti of Kore University of Enna and director of ...