Tagged: tomb

AN “alien glider” that was found in an Egyptian tomb is proof that extra-terrestrials have once visited Earth, a UFO enthusiast has claimed. The small wooden bird-shaped model was found in the Djoser Pyramid in 1898, and is estimated to be around 2,200 years old....

Archaeologists cleaning the forecourt of a high official’s tomb in Egypt poked through a hole and discovered another tomb behind it — one that was built for a man more than three millennia ago. The team, led by Egyptology professor Jiro Kondo of Waseda University...

JERUSALEM – Israel’s national museum said Tuesday it will open what it calls the world’s first exhibition devoted to the architectural legacy of biblical King Herod, the Jewish proxy monarch who ruled Jerusalem and the Holy Land under Roman occupation two millennia ago. The display...

CAIRO — Archaeologists clashed at a conference in Egypt on Sunday over a theory that secret burial chambers could be hidden behind the walls of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Speaking at the conference, former antiquities minister and famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass rejected the theory that undiscovered...

  The remains of a man found buried inside a stone tomb in Ireland indicates he was the product of incest, a new study reveals. Researchers found that DNA extracted from the man’s remains contains a much higher number of identical versions of the same...

People in ancient Egypt wore collars called “wesekhs” made of beads when they were alive. This painted collar is made of a different type of material called cartonnage (a plastered material) and was meant to be worn by a mummy after death. A clay seal...

The remains of a man found buried inside a stone tomb in Ireland indicates he was the product of incest, a new study reveals. Researchers found that DNA extracted from the man’s remains contains a much higher number of identical versions of the same genes...

CAIRO — Egypt has discovered the mummy of a woman dating back to the Roman era in a newly uncovered complex of tombs in a desert oasis. Archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who headed the dig, says the mummy is of a 3 feet tall woman. Her...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Corinth, Greece, have discovered a tomb dating back around 2,800 years that has pottery decorated with zigzagging designs. The tomb was built sometime between 800 B.C. and 760 B.C., a time when Corinth was emerging as a major...

The largest ancient Egyptian sarcophagus has been identified in a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, say archaeologists who are re-assembling the giant box that was reduced to fragments more than 3,000 years ago. Made of red granite, the royal sarcophagus was built for...