His mummy stands as proof of his legacy and gives important information into his extraordinary life and the grandeur of ancient Egypt. Hatshepsut Hatshepsut, one of the few female pharaohs ...

The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...

The ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of important people through mummification. They built special tombs to be buried in, which they filled with all their favourite things. Some pharaohs ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the ... so expensive that it was a privilege enjoyed only by the Pharaoh and a few favourites. Everybody else was given ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...

Archaeologists have unveiled a 4,100-year-old tomb belonging to a physician who treated the Egyptian Pharaohs ... Although there is evidence of ancient looting on burial grounds from that time ...

But starting in the eighth century B.C., Nubian pharaohs from a Kushite kingdom, now in northern Sudan, ruled Egypt. For more than a hundred years, they revived and adapted ancient Egyptian ...

In the past, royal graves were placed inside large pyramids. However, a shift occurred for an important reason—to safeguard ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...