An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But ...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo ...

The joint Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Waseda University have uncovered a rock tomb with several graves and archaeological finds from ...

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 ...

COVID Egypt reveals 59 ancient coffins found near Saqqara pyramids, many with mummies inside The sarcophagi have been displayed and one of them was opened before reporters to show the mummy inside. A ...

This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2024 shows a colored relief painting inside the tomb of an official of ancient Egypt in Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, Egypt. The Saqqara necropolis is home to ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Ancient workshops and tombs dating back 4,000 years were unveiled by antiquities authorities Saturday, at a sprawling pharaonic necropolis outside Cairo, Egypt's capital. Clay pots ...

Mostafa Waziri, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, holds a small statuette on March 19, 2022, inside one of the five ancient Pharaonic tombs recently discovered at the Saqqara ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Illuminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks Wednesday to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing — for the first ...

Twenty miles south of Cairo, on the Nile's west bank, where riverfed crop fields give way to desert, the ancient site of Saqqara is marked by crumbling pyramids that emerge from the sand like dragon's ...

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 ...