A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

In early 2023, archaeologists in Abydos, Egypt, unearthed a royal tomb believed to be over 3,600 years old. This burial site, surprisingly intact and ornately constructed, may belong to one of the ...

The tomb of an unknown pharaoh has been discovered by archaeologists in Egypt - but the king's name has been lost to the ages, with researchers now scrambling to find out who he was ...

All belonged to the same dynasty that ruled at Abydos, and their tombs date from the final phases of the royal necropolis there, roughly between 1650 B.C. and 1550 B.C., Wegner says.

Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania were investigating Abydos, one of Egypt's most ancient cities, when they found a 3,600-year-old royal tomb.. From its location near the Mount ...

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 ...

At Abydos, grave robbers picked the tomb largely clean. A grand recess in the burial chamber for canopic jars — vessels for organs, typically held in a gilded box — stood empty.

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

Over a decade ago, Wegner and his team came across the first tomb within this necropolis that confirmed the existence of the Abydos Dynasty, a ruling lineage that had been first hypothesized about ...