The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones included Osiris (the god of the underworld who was later resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis ...

After the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished, the next pharaoh was interred in an unusual and distant structure.

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

It has been known for a long time that ancient Egyptians venerated ... Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar ...

Which became quite a thing for the Ancient Egyptians, as King Tut’s remains ... were a little too closely related) and the god of the Sky. Like Ra, he had the head of a falcon.

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted ... he was venerated as Khnum-Ra, signifying the addition of the sun god Ra to his divine power.