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, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This remarkable discovery sheds new light on Egypt’s buried past and its sacred ...

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 ...

Khentika’s tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade. Mastabas were rectangular, ...

The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art ...

A team of archaeologists from a Dutch museum has been banned from carrying out excavations in Egypt’s rich Saqqara necropolis, after the museum mounted an exhibition that drew condemnation from ...

A priceless ancient Egyptian wall painting has been stolen from Saqqara’s Khenti-Ka tomb, prompting a major investigation by ...