When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, with brightly coloured decorations still clearly visible.

In the previous article, we discussed the results of CT scans performed on the mummy known as the "Younger Lady," discovered ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman sarcophagus has been discovered near Naples. It contains a mummy in an exceptional state of preservation, which could lead to a better understanding of Roman burial practices.

"Their remains tell incredible stories, not only about the scientific process of mummification, but also about the lives they lived and the people they were.” ...

Three tombs 'made by pure Egyptian hands' have been found in the archaeological site of Dra Abu el-Naga on the Luxor West ...

What on Earth were the pyramids up to? The current scholarly consensus is that they served as monumental royal tombs. Of ...

Kinship is the act of returning the ancient body of a mummified man to Egypt. It follows in a series of large-scale art projects created over the past three decades set in extraor ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...