Egyptian archaeologists working in the Matariya district of Ain Shams have recovered the first near-complete funerary ...

In antiquity, Heliopolis served as a primary religious center for the worship of Ra - indicated by the Al-Masalla obelisk of ...

The Egyptian Archaeological Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has unearthed a significant portion of a Greco-Roman era necropolis at Tell Kom Aziza in the Beheira Governorate. This major ...

Archaeologists uncovered rare funerary cache, gold-like earrings, and scarabs at the Panehsy tomb in ancient Heliopolis, ...

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

A long-ongoing excavation in Luxor, Egypt, has found a 4,000-year-old funeral garden, the first discovery of its kind. These gardens were known till now only through illustrations at the entrances of ...

A significant archaeological breakthrough has been uncovered in the historic district of Matariya, Ain Shams, where ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed stunning gold jewelry, including a ring depicting the "god of fun," in a burial that's more than 3,300 years old, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

When it was made: Circa 664 to 525 B.C. Ancient Egyptians wove impressively detailed nets of colored beads to create funeral shrouds around 2,500 years ago. The popular bead nets were placed on top of ...