A 15-foot slab of pink granite, carved with inscriptions naming a royal son called Wesir-ef-Ra, has emerged from the sand at ...

Ongoing excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, have unearthed two mummification workshops and the tombs of two significant priests. The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s ...

Egypt’s antiquities authorities have identified two adjacent mummification workshops at Saqqara, the largest such facilities ...

Archaeologists at the necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, have discovered a cache of 250 ancient Egyptian mummies and the largest caches of bronze statues ever found at the site—150 in total.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painted human-shaped sarcophagus on a table under a tent. Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for ...

A recent Saqqara excavation has unveiled painted coffins, highlighting the power of non-destructive archaeology. Advanced imaging techniques like CT scans allow detailed study of mummies and coffins ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The spaces were ...

Imhotep Museum was built in commemoration of the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep and the renowned French Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer who spent his life excavating in Saqqara. “The restoration ...

People look at ancient sarcophagi on display, discovered in a vast necropolis in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt.AP Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities speaks about an ...

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