"And he's a builder — everywhere you find traces." Hawass is the curator of the temporary exhibition "Ramses and Gold of the Pharaohs," which recently arrived in the western German city of ...

In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten was no different ... Egyptologists may never figure out why a fish was covered in gold. “Nobody really can explain it,” Hawass said, adding that around ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

But the pharaoh now has “filled [the temple priests’] workshops with male and female slaves” and all “the property of the temples has been doubled, tripled, quadrupled in silver ...

After the Nubian pharaohs lost power ... was also fertile and blessed with significant natural resources—iron and gold mines that fostered the development of a metals industry, especially ...

THE mystery of what killed King Tutankhamun may finally be solved — after scientists unearthed groundbreaking DNA evidence. The young pharaoh’s untimely death at just 18 has baffled experts ...

Three ancient Egyptian dynasties buried their pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings ... was stuffed with high-quality gold- and silver-leaved coffins and funerary equipment when it was unearthed ...

Pharaohs, unlike commoners and most nobles ... For their part, rulers lavished the Theban temples with offerings—of gold, silver, slaves and more—to thank the gods for their own good fortune.