The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

Nearly 200 years ago, a 3,300-year-old obelisk from Egypt was gifted to France. It now stands in the heart of Paris at Place ...

A pharaoh named Djoser ordered the construction of a "step pyramid" (a pyramid that looks ... of the underworld who was later resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of ...

ALADIN ABDEL NABY / Reuters / Corbis Not long after Amenhotep III died, in 1353 B.C., masons entered his mortuary temple and methodically chiseled out every mention of Amun, the god said to have ...

The three site components selected represent the capital city of the Kushite kingdom, Meroe, with its associated extensive burial grounds of pyramid tombs, and the kingdom’s two largest hinterland ...