SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have discovered seven Pharaonic Age tombs near the capital Cairo containing dozens of cat mummies along with wooden ...

CAIRO — A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara south of ...

EGYPT (WLS) -- Scientists in Egypt have "unwrapped" a mummy that is thousands of years old. They unwrapped the mummy without touching it because the 3,500-year-old mummified remains of the Pharaoh ...

Ancient Egyptians were serious cat people, if a discovery in a tomb near Cairo is any indication. On Saturday, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of archaeologists had uncovered ...

Egypt on Saturday opened a tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum ...

Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday that an ancient tomb has been discovered, marking the first Egyptian royal tomb uncovered in over 100 years, the country's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the west bank of the Nile River in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it. Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive necropolis ...

Egypt on Saturday opened the tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian ...