Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period from 1550–1070 B.C. They identified the ...

In addition to the decorated entryway, the burial chamber featured a series of other rooms capped by five-meter (16-foot) high vaults fashioned from mudbrick. The tomb dates to a time known as the ...

Archaeologists have unveiled a 400-year-old burial vault after following a long-lost ... the vault measures about 9 feet in depth, and slab tombs that were discovered date from the 11th through ...

These vaults, preserved across centuries of ... leaving behind no physical remains or burial artifacts. The tomb is believed to date from the Second Intermediate Period (circa 1640 BCE to 1540 ...

The diversity of artifacts within the excavation offers cultural connections beyond one region.

But despite the flooding, the vault wasn’t devoid of artifacts—and what archeologists found actually confirmed the tomb’s original ... during Egyptian royalty burial rituals.

The reuse of tomb equipment was common in this period, including coffins and burial vaults, so this in itself is not unusual. In 2015, Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves argued that these objects ...

These vaults created a space between the fourth ... In 1626, the remains of various tombs and burial mounds were disturbed unintentionally during work to put in place the bronze columns of the ...