Region

Africa

Valley of the Kings: Royal Tombs of New Kingdom Egypt

The burial ground of most New Kingdom kings for about 450 years, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site with more than 60 known tombs.

c. 1504–1070 BC · 9 min read

A state-run village of skilled tomb workers whose ostraca and papyri form the richest record of ordinary life in ancient Egypt.

c. 1500–1070 BC · 6 min read

The Nok culture produced the earliest large-scale figurative sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa and some of its earliest iron smelting.

c. 1500 BC – AD 1 · 8 min read

A terraced temple for the cults of Amun and Hatshepsut, damaged in antiquity and largely restored by modern archaeologists.

c. 1479–1458 BC · 6 min read

Egypt's greatest warrior king of the 18th Dynasty extended Egyptian control from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile to the Euphrates.

c. 1479–1425 BC · 6 min read

A female king of the 18th Dynasty whose peaceful, prosperous reign left major monuments, though her memory was later deliberately erased.

c. 1479–1458 BC · 8 min read

The giant obelisk cracked while still in the bedrock and was abandoned, leaving a unique record of ancient quarrying methods.

c. 1470 BC · 4 min read

A successful trading voyage that brought myrrh trees, incense, ebony, ivory, gold and animals to Thebes, celebrated in the reliefs of Deir el-Bahari.

c. 1470 BC · 6 min read

Egyptian victory; after a siege of about seven months Megiddo surrendered and Egypt gained control of Canaan.

c. 1457 BC · 6 min read

A richly painted tomb chapel that is a key source for Egyptian government, crafts and foreign contacts in the mid-18th Dynasty.

c. 1450 BC · 5 min read

Two ancient Egyptian obelisks, unrelated to Cleopatra, were re-erected in London in 1878 and New York in 1881, where they still stand.

c. 1450 BC · 7 min read

Jebel Barkal became the chief sanctuary of Amun in Nubia and the place where the kings of Kush claimed divine authority to rule.

c. 1450 BC · 6 min read