The large relief was taken from the necropolis of Saqqara’s tomb of Old Kingdom royal vizier Khentika, which had been ...

Just weeks after a pharaoh's 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen, officials in Egypt say an even older piece of art has vanished from a tomb wall.

An ancient limestone relief depicting Egyptian seasons was stolen from a 2,300 B.C. tomb at Saqqara near Cairo, adding to ...

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

An artwork depicting the seasons of ancient Egypt's farming calendar has gone missing from the famed Saqqara necropolis near ...

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt ’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in ...

A limestone pharaonic painting has gone missing from Egypt's famed Saqqara necropolis, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known for its rich and lengthy history. The painting was ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it. Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive necropolis ...

Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian laborers unearthed the tomb of ...

Mouse collector, deity, messenger of Satan, or beloved family member. The history of the cat is long and marked by ups and ...

Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around 5,000 years ago, they crafted the world’s first synthetic pigment, Egyptian ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...