A remarkable find of over 260 ancient burial sites has emerged in the Sahara, nestled between the Nile and the Red Sea.

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian burial chamber ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

When it was made: Circa 664 to 525 B.C. Ancient Egyptians wove impressively detailed nets of colored beads to create funeral shrouds around 2,500 years ago. The popular bead nets were placed on top of ...

Archaeologists uncovered rare funerary cache, gold-like earrings, and scarabs at the Panehsy tomb in ancient Heliopolis, ...

Egyptian archaeologists discovered a Greco-Roman cemetery in Egypt's Nile Delta, revealing diverse burial types and artifacts ...

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.

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered the first near-complete funerary assemblage at the Panhesy (Banhsi) ...

While excavating an ancient Egyptian necropolis near Luxor, archaeologists discovered a 3,800-year-old tomb containing multiple individuals who might represent different generations of the same family ...

A significant archaeological breakthrough has been uncovered in the historic district of Matariya, Ain Shams, where ...