Ancient Egypt's history has traditionally been divided into 30 (or sometimes 31) dynasties. However, "the 'dynasties' of Egypt are really just retrospective constructs," Michael Dee, an associate ...

Excavations of dozens of tombs in the Nile Delta have unearthed a trove of ancient Egyptian artifacts, some going back nearly 2,500 years. The artifacts include bronze coins, pottery, gold pieces ...

Here’s how it works. Ancient Egypt was ruled for millennia by a series of pharaohs. Historians have broken up this period into dynasties, in which the rulers were either related to one another ...

Ancient Egyptian dynasties were known to hold three types of slaves: Slaves who were prisoners of war, slaves who sold themselves or their children into slavery to settle debts and slaves who were ...

Egypt hopes recent discoveries ... it continues a series of discoveries in the ancient burial ground. The tombs date back to the Fifth and Sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 B.C ...

Sitting 40km south of Cairo near Giza, Saqqara is an ancient burial ground for ... and is renowned for its association with Egypt's earliest dynasties. The burial chambers, known as mastabas ...

Baboons, cats, birds, and crocodiles, which also had great religious significance, were sometimes mummified, especially in the later dynasties. Ancient writers, modern scientists, and the mummies ...