Signs of water damage, and the clean sweep of the pharaoh ... Egypt, according to Hugler. The whereabouts of Thutmose II’s body remains in dispute. A mummy on display at Cairo’s National ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

According to Hawass, Meri was the pharaoh’s ... was also uncovered. The mummy is of a man named Hekashepes and “may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date,” Hawass ...

Archaeologists in Egypt ... pharaoh's tomb, dating back 3,600 years. The excavation, which was conducted near the Egyptian city of Abydos this winter, was announced by the Penn Museum in ...

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand ...

The museum claimed one mummy was the Egyptian queen Nefertiti ... “There is no way we can accept a pharaoh who ruled Egypt to be outside of Egypt,” Hawass said. When the museum approached ...

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 found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the ... University of Pennsylvania and curates the Penn Museum's Egyptian section. "It gives birth to ...

Archaeologists exploring a neglected corner of the Valley of Kings in Egypt have identified the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh of the ... who unwrapped Thutmose II's mummy wrote, "He resembles ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt's earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left inside ... King Thutmose II was the fourth Pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty ...

Pieces of pottery and other evidence found inside the sprawling underground tomb revealed that it belonged to Thutmose II, a young pharaoh who died an untimely death more than three millennia ago.