Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

Built around 2560 BC, this magnificent structure was created as a tomb for the Pharaoh Khufu, showcasing the architectural mastery of ancient Egypt. It is the only surviving wonder of the original ...

Tucked away more than six feet underground, the tomb includes a roughly six-foot-tall limestone sarcophagus atop a rock-carved platform, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands.

In a groundbreaking revelation, archaeologists have unearthed inscriptions within Egypt's Great Pyramid, challenging age-old beliefs about its builders.

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery inside Egypt's Great Pyramid that they say rewrites longstanding beliefs ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game.

Archaeologists find unique 1,700-year-old sarcophagus depicting booze battle with a god A marble coffin with vivid carvings of a fabled face-off between Heracles and Dionysus discovered in ...

The 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears a mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.