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Archaeologists discover a 4,000-year-old tomb with a false door at Egypt's ancient Saqqara necropolis
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a door that leads nowhere and a collection of artifacts inside a high-ranking official ...
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Egypt unearthed 18 tombs and 24 golden tongues beneath an ancient coastal city
An Egyptian excavation on the Mediterranean coast has exposed a dense burial landscape from the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
Archaeologists there have uncovered a seemingly untouched 4,000-year-old tomb belonging to a high-ranking official named ...
Learn how a false door, ritual offerings, and later burials trace centuries of changing funerary practices at Saqqara.
The discovery highlights an important time in ancient Egyptian history when a woman-king transformed the role of chantress ...
The burials date to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of ancient Egypt, spanning roughly 322 B.C. to A.D. 395. This places the ritual more than 2,000 years in the past.
Stacked mummies in an Egyptian tomb looked like chaos until archaeologists mapped their burial order
A mummified dog lay across two bodies in a Theban tomb where every new burial was fitted around the ones already lying there.
Learn more about some of ancient Egypt's most sought-after mysteries and what we have discovered so far.
Looking inside a newly discovered ancient tomb for the first time is both exciting and terrifying. I was fortunate to experience this recently as director of an international research team carrying ...
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 ...
The viral tomb-honey story has weak evidence, but honey's low water, acidity and peroxide really can keep it edible for millennia.
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