A previously unexplored section of one ancient city has now been uncovered. What was found changes our understanding of how one crucial Biblical king met his demise.

Previously unexplored 'Area X' unearths new evidence that Josiah, the last great king of Judah, fell at the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II thousands of years ago ...

While excavating the remains of a military outpost from ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom period, archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb belonging to a top-ranking military official who served ...

"The Egyptian army's history is very much defined in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict," says Nezar Al-Sayyad, the chair of UC-Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

The Egyptian Army’s Unlikely Allies. By Negar Azimi. January 8, 2014. Save this story. Save this story. When the Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany took the stage in October at the Institut du ...

The Egyptian army's military exploits have not been glorious. They were defeated by Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and -- after initial success -- in 1973.