Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Ongoing excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, have unearthed two mummification workshops and the tombs of two significant priests. The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

Egypt on Saturday displayed recently discovered, well-decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The five tombs were unearthed earlier this month and date back ...

A joint archaeological mission has discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, featuring a 15-foot-tall pink granite false door and various artifacts ...

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa inspected various new archaeological finds by the Egyptian archaeological mission operating in Saqqara, which included the discovery of a burial well ...

A cache of ancient burial shafts containing hundreds of wooden coffins dating back to the New Kingdom are among a new batch of major discoveries found at Egypt’s Saqqara archaeological site. Coffins, ...

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 ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission, led by Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziry, working at the Saqqara necropolis for its sixth year on has discovered two of the ...

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 ...