Tutankhamun died unexpectedly, and soon the head of the army, Horemheb, declared himself pharaoh—possibly the first military coup in history. Horemheb and his successors, including Ramses the ...

When Tutankhamun—aka King Tut—died heirless when he was about 17 years old, Ay and later Horemheb continued the restoration as the last two pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty. Through all this ...

But Horemheb too dies childless, leaving the throne to a fellow army commander. The new pharaoh's name was Ramses I. With him begins another dynasty, one which, under the rule of his grandson ...

General Horemheb and an official called Ay ... Of course inside that coffin is the young pharaoh’s body. Hatshepsut was the longest reigning female pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

The pharaoh initiated an extraordinary building ... 1327–1323 B.C.) and Horemheb (r. ca. 1323–1295 B.C.), two of Tutankhamun’s successors. As the excavations unfolded, Hawass’ team failed ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh ...

The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been studied for the first time in millennia after being digitally "unwrapped". The mummy of Amenhotep I, who ruled from 1525 to 1504 BC ...

The artifact was interred in honor of Khufu, the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, by his son and successor Djedefre. For four and a half millennia, it lay undisturbed in its limestone sarcophagus.

In Total War: Pharaoh's Dynasties update, multiple new major factions are playable. Among them, Assyrian "King of the ...