Six royal mummies excavated more than a century ago at Dahshur, a pyramid and tomb complex south of Cairo, had been ...

Ancient Egypt has captivated people for centuries, inspiring countless books, documentaries, and blockbuster movies. Yet many of the ideas we take for granted about pharaohs, pyramids, mummies, and ...

Elite ancient Egyptian women were skilled archers, and likely trained to wield daggers and maces too, according to a new study of long-lost mummies that "completely challenges the traditional view" ...

Weapons buried with ancient Egyptian princesses may have been more than ceremonial decorations. Researchers studying royal ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor, hailing an “important ...

The sand at Saqqara, the vast burial ground that once served ancient Egypt’s capital of Memphis, has given up another royal secret: a tomb roughly 4,300 years old identified as the resting place of a ...