Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

Dr. Monika Badura and her colleagues have published a study analyzing an isolated burial found in the Bayuda Desert in the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. The discovery, made at ...

What is little known though, is that across every continent and every epoch this same forbidden technique appears under different names: Ba-flight in Egypt, pneuma-ekstasis in Greece, shen-you in ...

When people think of pyramids, Egypt instantly comes to mind, but few know that Sudan actually has more pyramids than Egypt.

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

More than two years after achieving independence from the British, India adopted its Constitution on 1949. Drafted under the ...

Now that the Grand Egyptian Museum is fully open, it's a great time to plan a trip to Egypt. Here's what you can easily do on ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

A stunning archaeological discovery in Tanis has revealed the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Sheshonq III, rewriting history.

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

In the clay-shaded gloom of the northern chamber of the tomb of Pharaoh Osorkon II, meticulous archaeological cleaning work ...