the Old Kingdom pharaoh who launched the tradition of constructing pyramids as monumental royal tombs. More than a dozen other pyramids are scattered along the five-mile strip of land, which is ...

"The pyramids are there as mountains of stone proving the otherworldly nature of their god-kings. You stand in front of those ...

The Egyptian government has announced that it will inject 500 million Egyptian pounds - equivalent to $47 million - into ...

Yet the ancient tomb that reemerged left them stunned. A joint team of Egyptian archaeologists were excavating a site within the Saqqara Necropolis, an ancient cemetery dotted with important pyramids ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

The necropolis is situated at Abydos’ Anubis Mountain, a natural pyramid-shaped formation that was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians and served to conceal the tombs built beneath it.

A BRIT anthropologist has made the bombshell claim he has located the tomb of Jesus Christ in a secret chamber beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Christ's tomb is said to lie alongside the Ark of ...

Most pyramids were royal tombs where the mummies of pharaohs and other important people, like nobles and government officials, were buried when they died. Mummification was a complex ritual that ...

The great pyramids of Giza have long drawn travellers from across the world, but over the years, the experience has been ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Userkaf’s son and a statue of Pharaoh Djoser during excavations in the ...