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A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission discovered a 4,000-year-old mudbrick mastaba tomb belonging to Teti Neb Fu, a royal physician from the reign of Pharaoh Pepi II, at the Saqqara ...
The excavations, conducted on the eastern slope of Saqqara, revealed four mastaba tombs from the late 2nd Dynasty and early 3rd Dynasties and over 10 burials from the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom.
An Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission working at the Saqqara archaeological area has uncovered several new discoveries, including tombs, graves and assorted Mastaba. The announcement came ...
Saqqara, an ancient Egyptian city of the dead, has yielded countless mummies. The walls of some tombs have threatening curses inscribed on them.
At Saqqara, the last Egyptian mummies date to the third century A.D. Despite the cultural triumph of Rome, however, some Egyptian iconography lives on in Christian narratives.
But why did so many ancient Egyptians want to be buried there?. Saqqara has been used for thousands of years and "the reasons for being buried at the site differed through time," Nico Staring, an ...
This comes against the backdrop of the Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission, which has unearthed tombs, mastabas, and burials. The discoveries, which include structures and artefacts from the 2nd, ...
The Saqqara archaeological site, one of Egypt’s most historically significant locations, continues to reveal remarkable secrets that provide valuable insights into the history of this iconic area.