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Researchers don't know this pharaoh's identity because they think ancient grave robbers damaged the marking of his name on the tomb wall. Still, he could help illuminate a forgotten era of Egyptian ...
Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,200-year-old tomb believed to belong to a high-ranking military commander from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses III, often considered the last great ...
Even the mightiest pharaoh could not outrun grief. Ramses II, father to over 150 children, faced the unthinkable—he outlived many of his sons. To honor them, he commissioned the vast KV5 tomb, a ...
Archaeologists examining an ancient Egyptian tomb have made a groundbreaking discovery. The catacomb, features a large pink granite 'false door' - the largest ever discovered in Egypt .
A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s ...
The tomb of an unknown pharaoh has been discovered by archaeologists in Egypt - but the king's name has been lost to the ages, with researchers now scrambling to find out who he was ...
A joint Egyptian-British mission has identified an ancient tomb near Luxor as that of King Thutmose II, marking the first discovery of a pharaonic royal tomb in more than 100 years, Egypt’s ...
The "pharaoh's curse" fungus unearthed by archaeologists who opened King Tutankhamun's tomb has now been transformed into an anti-cancer drug. Called Aspergillus flavus, the toxic fungus was once ...