The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday that Cairo has successfully recovered a rare collection of 25 ...

Read more from CNN's Middle East blog He pointed to the desiccated mummy of the famed Queen Hatshepsut (ca 1508-1458 BC), who masqueraded as a male pharaoh due to popular prejudices at the time.

The collection includes wooden and gilded sarcophagus lids dating back more than 5,500 years, parts of a temple believed to belong to Queen Hatshepsut and a Greco-Roman mummy portrait from Fayyoum ...

In 2007, Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass identified a previously excavated royal mummy as Hatshepsut. Catharine Roehrig is among those scholars awaiting more evidence to bolster the claim.

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

Gilded coffin lids from the Pharaonic era, gold funerary masks and what's believed to be fragments of Queen Hatshepsut's ancient ... A portrait of a mummy from Faiyum, Egypt, a gold coin from ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that 25 smuggled Egyptian artefacts have been repatriated from the United States, ...