The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

The Pyramid of Sahura has stood on Egypt’s desert plateau for roughly forty-four centuries, its interior seemingly mapped and remapped by generations of archaeologists. Yet restoration work has now ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

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At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid tombs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, is part of plans to draw more tourists to Egypt — Khaled DESOUKI Egypt officially opened on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, ...

After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields (5.4 million sq ft or 500,000 sq m) and ...