The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt.

A HUGE "fortune” of 400-year-old treasure has been found crammed inside the leg of a statue in ... angel” coin, gold ducats, various silver coins and hundreds of ancient pennies.

She says the statue, which is made of white marble ... lending credence to an earlier date put forward by Martinez. Ancient Egyptians often buried a collection of items, known as “foundation ...

The sculpture — just 4 inches ... who may have held an ancient percussion instrument, is thus part of "the long Egyptian tradition in which dwarves were integrated in society and had, in ...

The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AMIR MAKAR/AFP Some historians have suggested that the dual qualities of the snake — as both a ...

Double the size of a normal human skull, the ancient marble head was likely part of a larger-than-life statue that loomed over a public space or building. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...