A new study finds the Santorini volcano erupted decades before Pharaoh Ahmose, challenging its long-assumed link to early New ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

When Ahmose (reigned from c1550 – 1525 BC) became king, Egypt was in crisis. It was occupied in the north and threatened in the south. It was a shadow of its former self. But by the time he died, ...

One Egyptian mystery was “unwrapped” by computers this week. Egyptologists digitally unwrapped a 3,500-year-old pharaoh for the first time, giving historians insight into a new period of Egyptian ...

Mudbrick EA 32689 (British Museum) from the Temple of Ahmose at Abydos, showing the stamped prenomen (throne name) Nebpehtire of Pharaoh Ahmose. Its radiocarbon dates support a low chronology for the ...

Restoration work on the newly discovered artefacts, near the Queen Hatshepsut Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari in Luxor CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation ...

General view of a parade at a ceremony of a transfer of royal mummies in Cairo, Egypt, on April 3, 2021, i Host Broadcaster/Reuters TV More than 20 of Egypt's ancient royal mummies were transported to ...

Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I (S. Saleem and Z. Hawass) (CN) — Scientists using three-dimensional CT scanning have ‘unwrapped’ the mummy of the Pharaoh Amenhotep ...

In 1560 BC, Egypt was divided into two. Its very existence was threatened from both north and south. But one family was determined to restore Egypt to its former glory. One by one, the King of Thebes ...