The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the ...

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is bringing history to life with an exhibition exploring food in ancient Egypt, reports Nevine El-Aref Food played a central role in the lives of the ...

Ancient Egyptians were ruled by a leader called a pharaoh and worshipped many different gods. Today, we can still see traces of this culture in archaeological sites and museums all over the world ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...

Six Russian tourists were killed on Thursday after a viewing submarine sank near the Egyptian resort city of Hurghada, according to the local governor. Maj. Gen. Amr Hanafy confirmed the deaths in ...

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 ...

A series of ground-breaking discoveries are revealing, for the first time, the remarkable role played by the island - one of the world's least known ancient ... at least one Egyptian pharaoh ...

Burial chamber unearthed seven meters (23 feet) underground It was discovered at important ancient Egyptian city Abydos The pharaoh's name was obliterated by ancient tomb robbers March 27 (Reuters ...

The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt.