Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

You want to focus on the Scorpion King, one of the first kings of Egypt. Going back to 3150 BC. Dynasty Zero. We don’t even have the First Dynasty yet. I’m Pat McGovern. I’m from the ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë. The art adorning this fourth-century B.C. tomb is ...

NOVA: There have been claims that a great civilization predates ancient dynastic Egypt—one that existed ... You have the inscriptions and you have pottery dated to Dynasty 4.

He shared power with his aunt for the first 20 years of his reign, but became pharaoh after her death. As the sixth pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty, Thutmose III battled to reestablish Egyptian ...

Other items found in the area of the tombs include statues, funerary amulets and a pottery vessel containing 38 bronze coins dating to the Ptolemaic period. The Ptolemaic dynasty was Egypt's last ...