The use of rock-cut cave tombs in the region began in the early Canaanite period, from 3100–2900 BCE. The custom lapsed a millennium, however, before re-emerging in the earliest Israelite tombs, ...

A 2,300-year-old tomb in southwest Turkey—once revered as a holy Islamic site—turns out to have been the tomb of ancient Greek boxer Diagoras. Local people in the Marmaris district of Turgut thought ...

Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna ... who has been working in Taposiris Magna since 2004 in ...

Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. The discovery included a trove of ...

As well as being a prominent figure in his lifetime, Djefai-Hapi I, who lived around 1880BC, was deified by the ancient Egyptians, keeping his memory alive for centuries. His tomb at Asyut—one ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share CAIRO (AP) — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed ...

CAIRO (AP) — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. Egypt’s Tourism and ...

The ancient tomb was found buried in a cemetery in Assiut, Egypt around 240 miles south of Cairo Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...