Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb ...

Kenneth Garrett The Turin Papyrus is another king list from the ... Royal tombs of AbydosBeginning with Narmer, the pharaohs of Egypt’s first two dynasties were buried in the ancestral ...

David Degner / Getty Reportage A papyrus Tallet found at Wadi al-Jarf ... (Saqqara is where early Egyptian pharaohs built some of their tombs before beginning the pyramid complex at Giza.) ...

The Egyptian empire was under threat from ... a massive library dedicated to glorifying the pharaoh. It contained some 10,000 papyrus scrolls that created an official image of Ramesses that ...

Merer also mentions the name of a high-ranking official in the Pharaoh’s administration ... but the discovery of the papyrus diary of Merer was called “the greatest discovery in Egypt in ...

Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig Seated on a cushion at the Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s feet, Ankhesenamun hands her young husband an arrow to shoot at ducks in a papyrus thicket.

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these strange encryptions.

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 his ...