Archaeologists have discovered a stunning sphinx statue at an ancient temple in southern Egypt. The sandstone statue was discovered during a project to reduce groundwater at Kom Ombo temple in Aswan.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said ...

For travelers looking to experience Ancient Egyptian history, the most fruitful regions are those around Luxor – both north and south on the Nile – and Aswan, as well as the Cataracts region south of ...

However, the Abu Simbel Temples were more than a testament to rare royal love - they were a carefully crafted religious and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an extremely rare marble head depicting the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The head, which shows the emperor with wavy hair and a beard, was discovered in the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a 4,500-year-old valley temple belonging to a sprawling solar complex ...

Egypt is back. Though the country never left, visitor numbers dwindled after the 2011 revolution and subsequent protests that rocked Cairo through 2013. Unlike some more well-traveled destinations, ...

Egypt has been a major tourist destination since the 19th century, and even though there’s been a recent (peaceful) revolution, there’s always going to be a market for tourism given how much Egyptian ...

ASWAN, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that the students of the Egyptian Excavation Field School have uncovered a second-century temple at the Kom Al-Rasras archaeological site. Cartouches of the Roman ...