Archaeologists recently discovered two 1,500-year-old churches at Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, providing rare evidence of Christianity's rise during the Coptic period.

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

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations, rose along the fertile banks of the Nile River ...

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it ...

Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with Egyptian historian and activist Khaled Fahmy about a new constitution and where his country's current transition fits in the arc of Egyptian ...

The first thing to know about ancient Egyptian history is that there is a lot of it. The earliest pyramids antedate Herodotus, the first Greek to write about them, by nearly 2,400 years, about the ...

There has long been a fascination in Britain with the world of ancient Egypt. What is it about this mysterious civilisation that so catches the imagination? Five thousand years ago the chain of ...