Archaeologists have identified 260 previously unknown monumental tombs in the Atbai Desert of eastern Sudan, stone burial ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

The buried structure may be an entrance to something deeper beneath the desert floor.

A recent archaeological discovery in Egypt's Minya Governorate has shed new light on the earliest architectural experiments ...

For centuries, scientists believed that only the elite were buried in pyramids. But a surprising recent discovery of ancient skeletons has thrown that idea into question. In a new study, researchers ...

Archaeologists in Sudan have reopened an ancient pyramid and extracted bones and artefacts, in order to carry out further examination including DNA tests. The items were found in one of three burial ...

The pyramids have always suggested a civilisation that knew exactly what it was doing. What Jabal al-Tayr quietly adds to that picture is the long period of working things out beforehand, the ...

The startling discovery upends a “long-standing assumption in the field of Egyptology.” A recent study revealed new information which challenges previously held beliefs about the Egyptian pyramids.

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister, gives a lecture on ancient Egyptian history with a tourist group before the "Dream Stele" of the ancient Egyptian king Thutmose IV ...