The Latest Breaking News from Ramesses II

Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

The newfound barracks may have been built partly because the Libyans were becoming a growing threat to ancient Egypt.

Ancient sites, sprawling cities and sweltering beach resorts await

Ramesses II married his daughter and Cleopatra VII married her brother, but how common was marriage within royal and commoner families?

The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their immediate family members involved in religious activities, the burial itself, or feasting at banquets and hunting in the Nile marshes.

New scans reveal that Ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a tomb painting depicting royalty.

An international team of scientists has uncovered the changes made to two ancient Egyptian paintings.

The identities of a pharaoh and a nonroyal person in an "impossible" statue may have finally been deciphered.

Researchers have discovered a vast cranium collection that was likely left as an offering to Ramesses II, a much-loved pharaoh who died around 1,000 years before the skulls were embalmed.