Ramses II, the second-longest ruling pharaoh in Ancient Egypt, reigned from 1279 to 1213 B.C., a period marking the final peak of Egypt’s military power.

CT scans of a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, once suspected to be the victim of a palace assassination, suggest that he was actually executed after being captured in battle in the mid-16th century BCE.

An archaeological discovery near Aswan in southern Egypt could help better understand the birth of the country's first ruling ...

He was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt. In 2022, scientists from Egypt and England recreated the pharaoh’s face using 3D modelling of his skull to rebuild his features.

The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights into a pivotal Egyptian pharaoh and the circumstances of his exceptionally violent death. Seqenenre-Taa-II was ...

It is believed that her co-ruler and stepson/nephew Thutmose III ordered the change. [Photos: The Beautiful Sarcophagus of an Egypt Pharaoh] It was unusual for a woman to become pharaoh of Egypt.

The oldest-known representations of a pharaoh are carved on rocks near the Nile River in southern Egypt, researchers report. The carvings were first observed and recorded in the 1890s, but only ...

More than 2,000 decomposed ram skulls unearthed in a newly discovered warehouse in the temple of the ancient pharaoh Ramses II will help archeologists uncover more details about one of the oldest ...

Hemanhene Nana Apau Wiafe Ababio Sanwoansan has drawn a connection between the Akan ancestors and the Egyptian Pharaohs, suggesting that some of these ancient structures bear Akan names.

By Stephanie Pappas December 10, 2012 / 1:58 PM EST / Livescience.com The oldest-known representations of a pharaoh are carved on rocks near the Nile River in southern Egypt, researchers report.

A newly found pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt has historians scrambling to rewrite the chronicles of the ancient kings of the Nile. Researchers with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study ...