An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold artifacts, coins and pottery.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a series of tombs dating back around 4,300 years at Saqqara, including a sarcophagus holding the oldest known ancient Egyptian mummy that is covered with gold.

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found … ...

The tombs are thought to date to ancient Egypt's Late Period, which lasted from 664 to 332 B.C., the country's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in a statement.

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

In January, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold tongue at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site on Egypt's ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is revealing the surprising reasons why he was given such a lavish send-off ...

This gold falcon, which was discovered at the Tomb of Hetepheres, is now at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Scala, Florence By delaying the dig until he could travel to Egypt, Reisner could also ...

These items suggest that Pylos, a city with a fine port, had trading connections, previously unknown, with Egypt and the Near East around 1500 B.C.E., the time the tombs were in use.

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found … ...