The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

A Bedouin on a camel by the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure at the Giza Necropolis in Egypt ... copy of which was recently found in a tomb at Saqqara. In ancient Egyptian mythology, one of ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

Naples Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Surrounding the enclosures in the Liternum necropolis are some 20 other burials, including cappuccina tombs—simple burials reserved ...

Archaeologists found the tomb nearly 23 feet (about 7 meters) underground at the site of an ancient necropolis, or “city of the dead.” The necropolis is situated at Abydos’ Anubis Mountain, a natural ...

Archaeologists discovered a Roman necropolis near Naples at the location of the ancient settlement of Liternum. An inscription in the marble of a tomb indicated that it was the final resting place ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

Wegner's team excavated the 3,600-year-old tomb beneath 23 feet of sand at the necropolis of Anubis Mountain. It's part of Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt and once home to the ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.