The Apis tombs at Saqqara Necropolis back on Egypt's tourist map Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 20 Sep 2012 The salvage operation of the Apis tombs known as the Serapeum is finally completed ...

I return to you with this video, as Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany, said that the archaeologists have unearthed another 32 ancient sarcophagi. He spoke at the famed Step ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including ...

An overlooked trench, a mysterious enclosure, and a theory that rewrites how Egypt’s first pyramid was built. New research hints at a forgotten technology buried beneath Saqqara. For more than a ...

North Saqqara map showing the relation between the Abusir water course and the Step Pyramid construction process (Inset). The arrows figuring the flow directions are approximate and given for ...

Apart from its eroding pyramids, Saqqara was known, by contrast, for its subterranean caverns, which locals raided for mummies to use as fertilizer and tourists ransacked for souvenirs.

A research team’s astonishing claims that they discovered massive underground structures extending hundreds of feet deep beneath Egypt’s Khafre Pyramid sound like science fiction to experts.

The Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stand as Egypt’s most iconic landmarks and a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of its ancient civilization. For travelers ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the watercourse from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid’s network of pipes ...

Egypt’s oldest pyramid, erected about 4,500 years ago in Saqqara, might have been built using a hydraulic lift 1. The Step Pyramid of Djoser is surrounded by several unexplained structures ...