But how did Ramesses II die and what happened following the celebrated pharaoh's death? First, let's start with Ramesses II's ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered remnants of a sunken military warship from the second century BCE in the Egyptian ...

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The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

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He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Among the dead, scholars identified no fewer than 11 pharaohs of ancient Egypt’s splendid New Kingdom ... “A body lay there upon the boat, all black and hideous, its grimacing face turning ...

The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure. Similar patterns follow after ...

Explore the story behind Egypt’s mysterious Black Pyramid, built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Once a grand project, it ended in ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a remarkable discovery of a trio of ancient tombs dating back more than 3,500 years. The burial sites, unearthed in the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis in the southern ...