Archaeologists in Egypt just cracked open two ancient tombs that nobody’s seen in millennia, and what they found inside could ...

A joint Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission has uncovered two tombs at Saqqara dating back roughly 5,000 years, including a rock-cut tomb from Egypt’s Second Dynasty. The discovery, announced by ...

Scientists are investigating whether the funerary architecture of these tombs served as the foundation for the development of Egypt's pyramids.

Archaeologists have identified 260 previously unknown monumental tombs in the Atbai Desert of eastern Sudan, stone burial ...

Taken together, the discoveries suggest that Egyptian burial architecture was being tested and refined centuries before the ...

Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

The pyramid tombs of Egypt’s ancient rulers are amongst the most magnificent man-made structures to have survived through antiquity, into the modern-era. They have succeeded in capturing the curiosity ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

A mysterious structure has been discovered at Egypt’s pyramids, according to a recent report. What happened: The Archaeological Prospection journal published a report on May 5 detailing the findings ...

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University, Purdue ...