In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick ...

leading them to conclude that the tombs held members of a hereditary ruling class, somewhat akin to Egyptian pharaohs. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to ...

“Sinai has always served as Egypt’s eastern gate and its first line of defence,” he said, adding that the mission also unearthed a well-preserved road stretching over 100 metres in length ...

Pyramids aren’t only tombs built by ancient Egyptians. The most known pharaohs – Ramesses II and Tutankhamun – were buried in Valley of the Kings. It’s an area of rock-cut crypts located near the city ...

Discovery of a 4,400-year-old tomb of a previously unknown Fifth Dynast Inscriptions confirm Userefre was King Userkaf’s son and a senior royal The tomb includes Saqqara’s largest pink granite false ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:59-61: Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great ...