A joint Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission has uncovered two tombs at Saqqara dating back roughly 5,000 years, ...

For generations, we’ve been told the pyramids were tombs—but ancient Egyptian language and traditions suggest something very ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has unearthed a pair of 5,000-year-old tombs in Minya Governorate that are shedding new light on the evolution of ancient Egyptian funerary architecture. The ...

Ancient Egypt. Pyramids. A video for KS2 pupils exploring pyramids in Ancient Egypt - their construction, purpose and the ...

The new discovery of uniquely shaped “Polish pyramids” from 5,500 years ago highlights the distinct way early European agricultural societies buried their dead. While the tombs rarely reach taller ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols ...

The pyramid tombs of Egypt’s ancient rulers are amongst the most magnificent man-made structures to have survived through antiquity, into the modern-era. They have succeeded in capturing the curiosity ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...

A mysterious structure has been discovered at Egypt’s pyramids, according to a recent report. What happened: The Archaeological Prospection journal published a report on May 5 detailing the findings ...