The burial chamber features a decorated entryway, several rooms and soaring 16-foot vaults made of mud bricks. It dwarfs a tomb unearthed at Abydos over a decade ago, which was hailed at the time ...

The Tomb of Jesus Christ. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Credit: flickr / Larry Koester CC BY 2.0 Jesus Christ was crucified approximately two thousand years ago, in the spring of 33 CE.

Headless granite statues and a fallen figure uncovered in the tomb of Prince Waserif Ra in Saqqara. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A team of Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered ...

In addition to the decorated entryway, the burial chamber featured a series of other rooms capped by five-meter (16-foot) high vaults fashioned from mudbrick. The tomb dates to a time known as the ...

A joint Egyptian mission, led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage, uncovered the tomb of Prince Userefre, the son of King Userkaf, the first ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 feet of sand at the Abydos archaeological site. The discovery of the tomb of an ancient pharaoh ...

In addition to the decorated entryway, the burial chamber featured a series of other rooms capped by five-meter (16-foot) high vaults fashioned from mudbrick. The tomb dates to a time known as the ...

The tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, the founding ruler of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, has been uncovered on Friday, 18 April in the Saqqara necropolis by an Egyptian archaeological team ...

The tomb featured a decorated entryway and a series of other rooms capped by 16-foot-high mudbrick vaults. "One of Upper Egypt’s most ancient cities, Abydos is located about six miles from the ...

This year Lent has brought me, most unexpectedly, into the very tomb of Christ. To see where my wandering prayers had led was jolting — a moment of wonder as I encountered such a small, shadowy place, ...

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