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Another mysterious Egyptian mummy has kept its secrets for a long time, but now, technology is helping us take a look inside.
More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...
Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged ...
The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...
Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar ...
The mummy was discovered in 1919, is covered by bandages that mimic the pyramids of Giza and is still in the Egyptian Museum ...
No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.
First Royal Tomb Since King Tut Discovered Mohamed Abdel Badie—head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities—noted that the pharaoh’s tomb is much larger than ...
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, which inspired "Armageddon," reinforce biblical stories about King ...
According to the experts, wealthy Egyptian elites had strictly different activity patterns from non-elites that make it easier to discern the two from their skeletal remains. Perhaps it was ...
Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at a site called Tombos suggests low-status workers ...
The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...