The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines have been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...

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

Archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old papyrus in Egypt, a personalised guide to the afterlife for a man named Ahmose. This remarkably preserved ma ...

The 4,000-year-old handprint was discovered on the underside of a ‘soul house’—a structure shaped like a building with an ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The missing body of Shoshenq III, the sixth of 11 known pharaohs from ancient Egypt’s 22nd dynasty (945–716 B.C.E.), has unexpectedly turned up in the Tanis tomb of his predecessor, Osorkon II. In a ...

Highlights from this massive archaeological museum include the complete collection of treasures discovered within King Tut’s tomb.

The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically perfected the practice by wrapping and preserving millions of people and animals throughout the centuries.