Known in ancient Egypt as “The Chapters of Going Forth by Day,” Lepsius dubbed it the Book of the Dead. Its 200 chapters are a thrilling insight into beliefs about the trials, joys ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

Ancient Egypt looms large in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to The Prince of Egypt. The country is a treasure trove of ...

The first happened in New York City, and requires a brief background For the past few years, I have been working on a book that tackles the social and cultural history of Egypt during the 19th ...

His first book, “That Smell ... The two groups share a history of repression and imprisonment, but otherwise have little to say to one another. Egypt’s military governments have done ...

The precise rules are lost to history ... New Kingdom of Egypt, which began in about 1550 B.C., these game boards had acquired a religious symbolism, appearing in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Yet as Kara Cooney explains in her new book, When Women Ruled the ... woman—and explain how she saved Egypt at a critical moment in its history. Nefertiti is the trickiest of our women to ...

Publishers and television producers are happy to invest in ancient Egypt because they know that there will be an appreciative audience for their work, and every new book, each new programme ...

Lawrence Wright is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower, which examines the history of al-Qaida ... a group banned in Egypt by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak ...