While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

The four colossal statues of the Egyptian king Ramses II at the entrance to the Great Temple in Abu Simbel, near Aswan, Egypt. Osiris is one of the most easily recognised of all the Egyptian ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion are all that remains of a huge mortuary temple built by the pharaoh Amenhotep III (Amenophis) in the 14th century B.C. The temple, which the pair of ...

Though additions to the Temple of Luxor were made by many of Egypt's pharaohs (Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Hatshepsut, to name a few), the bulk of this ancient structure was created in the 14th ...