Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

Three recently uncovered tombs on Luxor’s West Bank are rewriting what scholars know about the administrative class of Ancient Egypt. Dating back more than 3,000 years to the New Kingdom, the tombs ...

The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

The tombs were from the New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.), and the names and professions of all three men were identified via inscriptions found inside their tombs The tombs, which were unearthed at the ...

French and Egyptian archaeologists exploring ancient Egypt's Tanis necropolis found a puzzling body in the tomb of a king.

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians—as well as how they thought about death. Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

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