Five thousand years ago in North Africa, an ambitious king, known today as Narmer, unified two lands into the world's first great territorial state—Egypt. Founder of a dynastySurveying his fallen foes ...

Clockwise from top left: Ca. 5,000-year-old stone mace-head, Egypt; ca. 5,000-year-old stone Narmer palette, Egypt; Medieval inscribed bronze sword, Witham River, England(Clockwise from top left: ...

Luxor is back, but it has never looked or sounded quite like this.

From the country's enormous riches to its complex religious rituals, there is an enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt. But now a 5,600-year-old tomb has been discovered that could shed light on a ...

Narmer, the best-attested Egyptian king from the period of state formation, reigned at a time of great social and political change, a time when the modes of self-expression and the mechanisms of rule ...