It even boasts a pyramid to rival the towering Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara. It only became a dump in the 1960s until it later turned into an archaeological site in the 1990s. Archaeologist ...

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The entrance was found at the Saqqara Necropolis - an ancient cemetery full of pyramids and tombs - in Cairo, Egypt. The stunning discovery was made by a team of Egyptian archaeologists as part of ...

"This is the first time that a false door like this was found in Saqqara" Zahi Hawass, a former antiquities minister who is leading excavations at the tomb, told Live Science in an email.

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned around 3,200 years ago, Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Last year, researchers scanned a papyrus housed at the University of Oxford, and next month, additional Herculaneum scrolls will be scanned in France. In the 18th century, archaeologists unearthed ...

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Photos of the papyrus fragments. Credit: Sara Stabile / CC BY 4.0 A rare set of 18 ancient scrolls from the ruins of Herculaneum, preserved for nearly two thousand years by volcanic ash, has arrived ...

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The tightly rolled papyri were being transported to the Diamond Light Source particle accelerator near Oxford, where researchers used the synchrotron’s powerful X-rays to reveal the scrolls ...