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A mummy on display at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, found in 1881, is ascribed to Thutmose II, but that individual died between the ages of 30 and 40 and was, some scholars ...
A pharaoh statue is on display during a press conference at the Saqqara archaeological site, where a gold-laced mummy and four tombs including of an ancient king's "secret keeper" were discovered ...
Pharaoh's tomb discovered by archaeologists in Egypt Dr. Josef Wegner, Penn Museum curator who is based in Philadelphia, recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery: an unknown pharaoh's tomb ...
Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from ...
Credit: Josef Wegner / Penn Museum The burial chamber was uncovered at the base of a desert cliff almost 23 feet beneath Abydos, one of Egypt’s oldest cities about 300 miles south of Cairo and ...
Archaeologists from Egypt and the Penn Museum unearth the new Abydos tomb. Dr. Josef Wegner for the Penn ... They haven't yet found this mystery pharaoh's canopic jars, which store a mummy's organs.
Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a ...
This marks the first such tomb found since 1922 when the discovery of 19-year-old pharaoh Tutankhamun's burial chambers enraptured the world. The inhabitant of this tomb has a lower profile.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left inside the identity of the fallen king remains a mystery. The 3,600-ye… ...
Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.
A mummy on display in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo that has been ascribed to Pharaoh Thutmose II, but some experts aren’t convinced it’s him. Photo: B.O’Kane/Alamy ...