The Ramesseum, located in a necropolis near Luxor, serves as a religious and political record of Pharoah Ramesses II’s reign.

A thin sheet of gold, pressed into the shape of a human tongue, sat inside the mouth of a mummy that had not been disturbed ...

Thin plates of gold, each cut into the shape of a human tongue, were still resting inside the mouths of mummified remains ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found ...

Their arrangement suggests they may have been moved there from another location in ancient times. Eight unopened papyrus ...

A collection of painted sarcophagi and papyrus scrolls dating to Egypt's Third Intermediate Period (c. 1077–664 BCE) was discovered during excavations in Seneb's tomb in the Kurna area on the west ...

Another wild discovery in the ancient city of Luxor has been located by Egyptologists ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.

Archaeologists recently uncovered an impressive Egyptian temple dedicated to a fertility god that dates back over 2,000 years. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities released a statement ...

A structure blending Egyptian, Greek and Roman styles was discovered in the ancient city of Pelusium at the edge of the Nile ...

Ramesses II is whole again.