STORY: Officials unveiled the wooden coffin to a crowd of reporters and cameras at the Grande Halle of La Villette exhibition centre. "It's not the mummy but the coffin of Ramses II, a wooden case ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists exploring a neglected corner of the Valley of Kings in Egypt have identified the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh of the ...

Scan of Amenhotep I’s coffin with mummy inside(Courtesy Sahar Saleem) It’s not every day that scientists have the opportunity to look inside the coffin of a ...

Archeologists find the lost tomb of an unnamed pharaoh, in a burial complex in Egypt that reflects a time of fragmented rule.

There is perhaps no other period in human history that has captured minds and imaginations quite like ancient Egypt. “Egyptomania,” or the intense interest in all thing Egypt, was first sparked by ...

The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings ...

The ancient Egyptians are famous for their elaborate tombs, which were designed to honor their rulers and reflect their lives in the afterlife. Among these tombs, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the most ...

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a mystery ...

In what experts are calling a "once-in-a-lifetime discovery," likened to an Indiana Jones film set, a 13th-century BCE burial cave from the time of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was discovered in Israel ...

Ancient Egypt. King Tutankhamun. This video gives an understanding of the life and death of King Tutankhamun for KS2 pupils.

This month marks the centenary of the revelation of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922. And Visconti is taking note, offering a limited edition pen collection ...