An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But ...

More than two millennia ago, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in Saqqara, an ancient city of the dead. Their organs were removed, and their bodies wrapped in linens. Priests placed them inside ...

People look at ancient sarcophagi on display, discovered in a vast necropolis in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt.AP Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities speaks about an ...

SAQQARA, Egypt -- Illuminated by only torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks yesterday to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing a perfectly ...

Archaeologists in present-day Egypt recently discovered a trove of artifacts, dating back some 2,500 years ago. The find includes 250 sarcophagi – which contain mummified remains – and 150 bronze ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Ancient workshops and tombs dating back 4,000 years were unveiled by antiquities authorities Saturday, at a sprawling pharaonic necropolis outside Cairo, Egypt's capital. Clay pots ...

COVID Egypt reveals 59 ancient coffins found near Saqqara pyramids, many with mummies inside The sarcophagi have been displayed and one of them was opened before reporters to show the mummy inside. A ...

Mostafa Waziri, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, holds a small statuette on March 19, 2022, inside one of the five ancient Pharaonic tombs recently discovered at the Saqqara ...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo ...