Arab foreign ministers have picked veteran Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmy to lead the Arab League for the next five years ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Egyptian archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a Christian monastic site from the 5th century — some 400 years after the time of Jesus Christ.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Archaeologists working in Egypt's Nile Delta may have discovered a tomb or temple dating back around 2,600 years while ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, ...

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

The discovery of an enigmatic ape's 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group ...

Analyzing samples of mummies from different dynastic periods showed how the mixtures of substances used in mummification became more complex with time.