The Pyramid of Sahura has stood on Egypt’s desert plateau for roughly forty-four centuries, its interior seemingly mapped and remapped by generations of archaeologists. Yet restoration work has now ...

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Abydos has drawn pharaohs and pilgrims for millennia as Egypt's holiest burial ground, where proximity to Osiris promised ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing ...

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Zahi Hawass traces the evolution of royal funerary practices during the 18th Dynasty, one of ancient Egypt’s greatest and ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The spaces ...

The missing body of Shoshenq III, the sixth of 11 known pharaohs from ancient Egypt’s 22nd dynasty (945–716 B.C.E.), has unexpectedly turned up in the Tanis tomb of his predecessor, Osorkon II. In a ...