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A 52-foot-long Book of the Dead was uncovered from an ancient Egyptian tomb in March 2022 and officials have shared the first images of the scroll that features scenes of gods and the afterlife.
Archaeologists in Egypt have excavated more artifacts related to King Tut’s generals and advisers, as well as the pharaoh King Teti.
The bones of an ancient Egyptian child at Zahi Hawass's site. I was descending into the cemeterial netherworld below her funerary temple. Midway down the shaft, the walls took on a honeycomb pattern, with large shelves carved into them. Thousands of years ago, they held painted coffins and mummies wrapped in linen and reeds. While I descended farther, the shaft narrowed as I passed through a wood frame that supports the walls. Just above the bottom, water glistened on the walls like jewels. The basket touched ground. The eyes adjusted to the dark. On the floor were two limestone coffins. ...
Don't show me this message again✕ Zahi Hawass, a well-known archaeologist in Egypt and its former antiquities minister said: ‘We are rewriting history’ (AFP via Getty Images) Seated in a yellow plastic laundry basket attached to two thick ropes, I was lowered into the earth. The light got dimmer, the temperature colder. A musty smell filled the air. The only sound was from the workmen above handling the ropes and yelling “shweya” - slowly. One miscue, and I could fall 100 feet. I was inside a burial shaft in Saqqara, the ancient necropolis roughly 19 miles south of Cairo. In recent...
Egypt Unveils 3000-Year Old Coffins in New Discovery at Saqqara 23/01/2021 A coffin, part of a recent discovery from the Saqqara necropolis, is seen here at a site south of Cairo, January 17, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Hanaa Habib. Cairo: Egypt has unveiled a significant new archaeological discovery at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including 54 wooden coffins, many of which can be traced back 3,000 years to the New Kingdom period. The funerary temple of Queen Neit was also discovered near the pyramid of her husband, King Teti of Egypt’s 6th dynasty which dates back 4200 year...