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Egyptian military official Wahibre-mery-Neith was in charge of recruiting soldiers of fortune from Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands.

Archaeologists have uncovered the unique tomb of an Egyptian commander in Abusir, matching with the mummification materials found a few months ago.

A downpour, a dust storm and an encounter with a lively dig team offered a photographer a new perspective on the country’s celebrated tombs.

The Egyptian security services found the body of the Egyptian broadcaster, Shaima Gamal, who disappeared 3 weeks ago. The security services found the bo

Memphis, near the modern village of Mit Rahina not far from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and its necropolis were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1979. The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs

Archaeologists discover a large cache of ceramic pots from the sixth century B.C.E. containing resins, oils and myrrh used for embalming

Mysterious News Briefly — March 1, 2022 It’s difficult to tell from Stone Age remains how a person died, but new scanning electron microscopy (SEM) scans look inside bones where the marrow was and can find tiny ocean fossils, including algae, parasitic eggs and broken sponge structures called spicules helped confirm that bones found in

Hundreds of pottery vessels were discovered inside a burial pit south of the pyramids of Giza dating back to the 26th Dynasty.

A deposit of hundreds of embalming tools uncovered in Abusir, Egypt – probably the largest ever found – offers clues into a lavish funeral that likely took place about 2,600 years ago. 

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian cache of embalming supplies for mummification in Abusir.