On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty ... Among the most intriguing finds is a ...

This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of ...

Despite being revered in the annals of Ancient Egyptian greatness ... a theory that the famous death mask might have been designed for a different pharaoh, possibly not even a close relative ...

It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a pharaoh called Sety I. A shabti is a little ...

Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian ... gold funerary mask may have been intended for someone else but the pharaoh's untimely death ...

But starting in the eighth century B.C., Nubian pharaohs from a Kushite kingdom, now in northern Sudan, ruled Egypt. For more than a hundred years, they revived and adapted ancient Egyptian ...