The Saqqara Necropolis was the Burial ground for the Ancient Capital City of Memphis, which lies south of Cairo. On October ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

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But why did so many ancient Egyptians want to be buried there?. Saqqara has been used for thousands of years and "the reasons for being buried at the site differed through time," Nico Staring, an ...

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Campbell Price, of the Manchester Museum, adds that the answer also has to do with Saqqara’s pyramids. The necropolis had always been a center for religious cults, from the time high-ranking ...

New digs at the Saqqara necropolis provide archaeologists more insight to how mummification took shape—and could help save Egypt's economy.

Saqqara Necropolis, south of Egypt's capital, Cairo, is a vast ancient burial ground located at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis and contains numerous pyramids and tombs.

The Egyptian Antiquities Mission has been excavating the Saqqara necropolis since 2018. It contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty and pharaohs and the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of ...

A colored painting is seen on a recently unearthed ancient wooden sarcophagus at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday ...