Women played a crucial role in all aspects of the development and endurance of the state, including some who ruled the country in their own right.
A new analysis of their bones suggests they were buried alongside arrows, maces and daggers because they had repeatedly used ...
Egyptian authorities have opened a roughly 3,000-year-old tomb belonging to a high-ranking official in the western necropolis ...
For over a century, scientists have debated the purpose of weapons found in the burial chambers of ancient Egyptian royal women. Were these items merely ceremonial, or did the princesses actually ...
Egyptian authorities have identified tomb C4 in Wadi C on the Theban mountain, west of Luxor, as the burial site of Thutmose ...
The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...
Among their rigorous preparations for eternity, ancient Egyptians developed an intricate set of religious writings to help the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife in union with the solar god Re and ...