Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary ...

Tutankhamun’s tomb, discovered in 1922, is still the most intact pharaoh’s tomb ever found. At the time, King Tut’s exquisite artifacts and his elaborate burial shrine captivated the world and ...

Archaeologists uncovered proof suggesting that a pharaoh was involved in an ancient Egyptian royal drama. An Egyptian pharaoh went to great lengths to steal a predecessor's tomb and also moved his ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...

The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shabti figurines inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Shoshenq III, found inside Osorkon II’s tomb at Tanis, northern Egypt. (photo ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis have revealed a funerary mystery: hundreds of figurines with the name of an unexpected pharaoh. A French archaeological mission headed by ...

One of the largest tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation. The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 ...

A recently unearthed letter penned by the famed British archaeologist Howard Carter has shed new light on the origins of the "Curse of the Pharaohs," revealing his intense disdain for the man who ...

Egypt on Saturday opened the tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Being a pharaoh in ancient Egypt meant existing as a living god. Everyday tasks were beneath someone who had been transmogrified into a divine being.