From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

Abydos has drawn pharaohs and pilgrims for millennia as Egypt's holiest burial ground, where proximity to Osiris promised ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...

Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers may have something to say on the matter.