The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left inside the identity of the fallen king remains a mystery. The ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh who launched the tradition of constructing pyramids as monumental royal tombs.

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Archaeologists have found the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, helping shed more light on ancient Egypt at its peak.

The mystery of what killed King Tutankhamun may finally be solved — after scientists unearthed groundbreaking DNA evidence.

Two studies that examined these clay objects, until now thought to be the bases for other elements, argue that they were ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...