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

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

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

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

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

For over 2,300 years, researchers and historians are trying to locate the Alexander the Great Tomb, one of the world's ...

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

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 ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

More than two years after achieving independence from the British, India adopted its Constitution on 1949. Drafted under the ...

A French archaeological mission at the San El-Hagar site in Tanis has uncovered 225 ushabti figurines belonging to King Shoshenq III of the 22nd Dynasty in Egypt, which experts hailed as the most ...