Brown says the royal burial ground at Abydos was a precursor to the Valley of the Kings, which was established in the first stages of the New Kingdom. "We see this pattern throughout Egyptian ...

along with sections of a religious text associated with ancient Egyptian royal burials. Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities described the ...

Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The Abydos tomb is the second royal grave Egyptologists have unearthed this year. The first belonged to Thutmose II, husband of the famous ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king who ruled the region during a tumultuous time 3,600 years ago. The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in ...

A joint Egyptian-American team from the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered a royal tomb from the Second Intermediate Period in the Gebel Anubis necropolis at Abydos in Sohag Governorate.