A joint Egyptian-Canadian archaeological mission has successfully identified the owner of an ancient tomb discovered in the ...

It’s nearing the end of my 11-day Egypt experience, and there’s always something new to see. It’s easy to sit on the deck of the sleek Viking river ship—one of six in the cruise line’s Nile fleet—and ...

The National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation houses artefacts from the old Egyptian Museum and 22 royal mummies – 18 kings and four queens – including Ramses ... Only the mummy of Tutankhamun ...

Ramesses II had the second longest reign in Egyptian history ... [Related: ‘Screaming woman’ may solve a 3,500-year-old mummy mystery.] Several religious or spiritual artifacts were also ...

“The royal cartouche contains Ramses II’s coronation name,” Payraudeau said, “which is specific to him, but was obscured by the condition of the stone as well as a second engraving added ...

Traces of the second sarcophagus were ... that the stone sarcophagus of Ramesses II eventually was taken — after his tomb was robbed and his mummy was safely tucked away in a secret cache ...

From its decoration, researchers were only able to pinpoint that it had been used to house two individuals, the first a high-ranking figure in the Egyptian New Kingdom and the second a high priest ...

Payraudeau said: “The royal cartouche contains the coronation name of Ramesses II, which is specific to him, but this was masked by the condition of the stone and by a second engraving ...