One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...

[Read more about the ancient Egyptian ... This painting from Hetpet's tomb shows a monkey reaping fruit. There appears to be a baby monkey holding onto its back. An orchestra is seen playing ...

Colorful paintings of daily life in ancient Egypt have been discovered in a tomb dating back more than 4,300 years. The tomb, known as a mastaba, was found in the pyramid necropolis of Dahshur ...

These tombs often hold the burials of elite members of ancient Egyptian ... from her children," Egypt's antiquities ministry said in a statement. [See Images of the Giza Tomb and Paintings Inside ...

Seeds, as well as paintings of watermelons, also have been discovered in Egyptian tombs built more than 4,000 ... as a diuretic and as a way to treat children with heatstroke by placing the ...

Only one other painting of a dancing monkey has been found previously, reports the Egyptian newspaper al Ahram, with a monkey dancing in front of a guitarist in the 12 th-century tomb of Kal-ber ...