Roeder found the statue 150 miles south of Cairo in the Minya Governorate, near the modern-day city of El Ashmunein. In ancient times, this area along the Nile was known as Khemnu. It served as a ...

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King ...

But he also noticed the half-buried statue of a sphinx ... and it shines a light on Egyptian culture at a moment of transition. In the Old Kingdom, in the third millennium B.C.—Djoser’s ...

The statue was carved from a single piece of limestone, and pigment residue suggests that the entire Great Sphinx was painted ...

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient tombs with canopic jars and hundreds of statues, photos show. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Standing in front of ...

and many others Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ruled by a leader called a pharaoh and worshipped many ...

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient ... statues, photos show. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Standing in front of the Ramesseum Temple in Luxor ...