A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...

The painted limestone statue of a royal scribe is known to be the tomb statue depicting a high official. The 75 cm tall figure, wearing a Shendyt skirt and fitted wig, holds a partly unrolled papyrus ...

The Egyptian statue of a woman named Hel dates from around 1,300 B.C.E. and is dedicated to the gods of the city of Memphis.

During the reign of Ramesses II (circa 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C.), a statue-worshipping cult dedicated to the king flourished at Deir el-Medina. Worship of the pharaoh and construction of statues ...

LONDON - For months, curators at a British museum had been wondering how an ancient Egyptian statue in a sealed display cabinet had been able to rotate on its glass shelf, seemingly of its own free ...

The upper part of a statue depicting King Ramesses II (left) was recently found at an archaeological site in Upper Egypt. At right is a 1926 illustration of the pharaoh.

Archaeology & History Egyptian Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Surprising Find: A Roman-Era Buddha Statue Carved Out of Mediterranean Marble. Other discoveries in the same Roman temple include ...

The statue, of a man called Neb-Senu, was intended as an offering to Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. It was donated to the museum by a private collector some ...

Even before it opened this week, the Grand Egyptian Museum looked to be making history. On Wednesday, Egypt will finally open doors to some of the 700,000 years' worth of artifacts to the public.