Reports of archaeologists opening an untouched pyramid chamber overflowing with treasure have raced across social feeds, ...
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Did you know there’s an almost 30-foot-tall pyramid in Salt Lake City, right next door to an otherwise normal residential neighborhood? And, yes, there is at least one human ...
Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris ...
The treasure trove also included bronze statues dating back 2,500 years, discovered at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, The Washington Post reported. “In one of the wooden sarcophagi, we found, ...
Hundreds of mummies were found within the tunnels in and around King Teti’s pyramid. The discovery also uncovered a queen’s pyramid, which has since been tied to Neith—a previously unknown queen to ...
Zahi Hawass calls himself a simple man, but the world’s foremost Egyptologist spends much of his time with ancient royalty, gods and goddesses. In fact, Dr. Hawass is revered as a legend in his own ...
Archeologists in Egypt discovered a 4,300 year-old mummy — possibly the oldest one ever found in the country — during an extraordinary dig near Cairo, officials announced Thursday. The mummy called ...
Archaeologists have found a pyramid belonging to a previously unknown ancient Egyptian queen outside King Tut's tomb, along with a trove of coffins, mummies, artifacts, and a network of tunnels. As ...
After two years of work in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered hundreds of tombs with interconnected tunnels and mummies, in addition to a pyramid identifying a previously unknown queen. The ...
SAQQARA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists found a rare intact mummy dating to pharaonic times when they opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus on Wednesday in the shadow of the world's oldest ...
LAHUN, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The ...