Beautifully preserved, it showed the face of a woman with ... This was mass burial on an astonishing scale, and it shines a light on Egyptian culture at a moment of transition.

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

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The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been stuck in a 'scream' for thousands ... neglecting to ...

Archaeologists found ancient jars used for holding the dead person’s organs and hundreds of statues carved to look like the ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ...

Tutankhamun ruled ancient Egypt shortly after a period of religious instability, and objects from his tomb suggest he took ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld. Many of history’s earliest pharaohs also chose to be interred there inside a sprawling ...