Human and animal remains unearthed in Egypt's Nile Delta reveal changing funerary practices over some 600 years, and the ...

Recently, a remarkable discovery was made with the unearthing of eighteen ancient Egyptian tombs near Marina el-Alamein.

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

In antiquity, Heliopolis served as a primary religious center for the worship of Ra - indicated by the Al-Masalla obelisk of the Temple of Ra-Atum. An almost-complete ancient Egyptian funerary set was ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Egypt’s deserts rarely reveal anything in a straight line. Beneath the shifting sand of al-Ghuraifa, a burial ground dating ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

From Egyptian mummification to Victorian mourning codes, these historic funeral traditions reveal how humans have always ...

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ...