If you were to ask which country the ... Egyptian - but it's not a typical Egyptian pharaoh's face, because this man is unquestionably a black African, and this sphinx is the image of a black ...

Tutankhamen, often referred to now as King Tut, is the most well-known of Egypt’s pharaohs due ... workshop of an Ancient Egyptian sculptor. Nefertiti and her husband were behind a religious ...

According to Egyptologist Salima Ikram, a less often discussed fact about Tutankhamun's mummified remains is that he had a ...

The final pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra, lived more recently than the Pyramids were constructed at Giza. The native place of ...

Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into ... 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.

In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy, dated around 3500 BC, is believed to have been created this way. The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made ... only by the Pharaoh and a few ...

Here, on the plateau of Giza, 2,300,000 blocks of stone, some weighing as much as 9 tons, were used ... Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet," which meant "black," after the black fertile ...

Full of secrets and magic, they were once people who lived and ... to accompany him into the afterlife? Icon of ancient Egypt, the teenage pharaoh’s funerary mask immortalizes his features ...

Catarina and Danillo Prímola had planned to name their newborn son Piyé, paying homage to the first black Egyptian pharaoh who had ... and spelling of the name were preponderant for the ...

Amenhotep II was a significant ruler in Egyptian history ... Queen Tiye and the mother of Tutankhamun. The pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings were famously buried with great riches (as discovered ...