The U.S. - Egypt Science and Technology (S&T) Joint Fund was established under an agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt to ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...

As protests continue in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak, Hassan Azzazy, a chemist and associate dean for graduate studies and research at the non-profit, private American University in Cairo, ...

The mummy was found at Oxyrhynchus, a town on the banks of a Nile River branch called Bahr Yussef. By 400 CE, the vital urban ...

Among the most striking discoveries is the mummy of a man found inside a sarcophagus, described as being 'completely covered ...

A new discovery has rewritten the timeline of Egypt's early dynasties, placing the rise of the New Kingdom nearly a century later than previously thought. The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to ...

This pharaoh wanted everyone to know it, too. Ramses II was responsible for many massive architectural projects across the ...

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found ...