The cartouche of the warrior King Aahmes has three ovals; that of Thutmes IV. has four; while six were necessary for the great Ramses. The names to which we are accustomed are not Egyptian, but Greek.

Archeologists and graphics experts have recreated the facial features of one of Egypt's most significant pharaohs, Amenhotep I, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty around 1,500 BCE, or 3,500 years ago.

The pharaoh Ramses II, or Ramses the Great, ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.E., as the third king of the 19th Dynasty. Nicknamed the “ builder pharaoh,” Ramses commissioned many temples ...

Hatshepsut's successor tried to demolish all traces of her, but her temple stood the test of time. The once-grand temple offers a look at one of Egypt’s longest reigning female pharaohs.

Humans Tutankhamun was only a D-list pharaoh. So why was his tomb so opulent? He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now ...

The pharaoh was originally thought to have died between the ages of 40 and 50, based on a 1932 X-ray study, and then a 1967 study estimated that he was around the age of 25.