According to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt, the tombs are thought to date back to ancient Egypt's Late Period, which spanned from 664 to 332 B.C., making them nearly 3,000 years ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

An ancient Egyptian city has been uncovered by a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists. Archaeologists from the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory at a temple site. The observatory, thought to date to the sixth century B.C., was built with mud bricks ...

Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), ... A team of workers moved the giant bricks that make up the pyramids.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

A vast ancient astronomical observatory has been uncovered in Egypt, revealing a structure dating from the 6th century BC, buried under the sand for 2,500 years. Located in the temple of Buto, in ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

In Egypt, ancient treasure dating back 3,300 years is being So'oud Aten. Dubbed the lost golden city, its residents left at the whim of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Ancient Egyptians used hydraulic lifts to build first pyramids, controversial study claims. ... Contrary to previous monuments of the time which were made of mud brick, ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.