LIVING WITH THE ENEMY
How a small community of Nubian traders and Egyptian colonists blended and forged a new identity that may have led to Egypt's largest-ever empire.

AHMOSE: FATHER OF A DYNASTY
Bizarrely, the war against the Hyksos may have started with some bellowing hippos.

THE DIVINE FALCON
The most commonly-depicted deity in the entire history of ancient Egypt isn't Osiris, Amun or Hathor—it's the divine falcon.

HIEROGLYPHS: WHO TRANSLATED THEM FIRST?
Jean-François Champollion may have been beaten by medieval Arab scholars centuries before.

SAVING ANCIENT EGYPT
A new history of Khonsu Temple and a new look for a statue of Amenhotep III: the remarkable results of the American Research Center in Egypt's conservation field schools.

MERESANKH III: QUEEN FOR ETERNITY
The Giza Project at Harvard University is building a 3D virtual reconstruction of the Giza Plateau as it may have looked in 2500 B.C. We explore one of the digitally recreated tombs: that of Khufu's granddaughter.