Restoration Brings Ancient Egyptian Temple to Life, Revealing Vibrant Colors and Gold A joint archeological mission revealed the original colors of the Edfu Temple, as well as never-before-seen ...

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and an Egyptian team opened three sealed sarcophagi from the 26th Dynasty. One contained the well-preserved mummy of a powerful priest, wrapped in linen and decorated with ...

More than a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails were discovered inside 2,000-year-old tombs. A team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers uncovered these ...

Turin: About 1,300 years ago, a string of natural disasters rocked the coast off the modern-day port city of Alexandria, sending chunks of three Egyptian cities into the sea. Up from the depths ...

See an Ancient Egyptian Temple’s Brilliant Colors, Newly Revealed Beneath Layers of Dust and Soot Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that ...

Archaeologists uncovered a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian and Greek artifacts. It included gold and silver trinkets, likely used in ritual ceremonies to bless the pharaohs. They were found on ...

Image Credit: Upper part of a statue of Ramses II holding the heka scepter. Egyptian, Tanis, temple of Amun, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19. Granodiorite; 32¼ × 27½ × 21¼ in. (82 × 70 × 54 cm).

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus. The team made the finds when they dug down to the bottom of a ...

At an ancient Egyptian temple, rare traces of gold leaf and graffiti were uncovered. A team of researchers from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, made the discovery during ...

Ancient Egyptian burials reflect status and wealth The excavation and mission to explore the necropolis has been ongoing for years. In 2019, the ministry announced the discovery of seven gold ...