Uunfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after death brought people closer to the gods, the mummies' aromas now have faint notes of cheese, vomit and urine.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ancient royal tombs.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The death of a man whose body was discovered in Raleigh-Egypt Thursday afternoon has been declared a homicide, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD). The man's body ...

Thousands of Egyptians, led by public figures and political delegations, are protesting in the Egyptian Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip to reject all proposals to displace the Palestinian ...

King Charles laid a candle in memory of the Holocaust victims who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau at a moving ceremony attended by world leaders at the site of the death camp. Holocaust survivor Marian ...

Martínez President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to ...

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed offered his condolences to Saudi's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on the death of Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Along with the nation's leader ...

Cyril Aldred explores how the 1954 discovery of the remains of the royal ship of Cheops proved that a nation which was built round the Nile had to be a nation of sailors. Show more In 1954, road ...

From the British Museum's 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition, Cyril Aldred introduces a programme on the role of the pharaoh, one of the most distinctive aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

George's death was embroiled in controversy – but not until in 1986. That was the year that the diaries of his physician, Lord Dawson, came to light. These diaries revealed that the good doctor had ...