The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness.

Painted relief of Seti I (left) receiving the sign of life from Egyptian god Thoth (or Hermes Trismegistus as Greeks called him), scribe of the Emerald Tablet From the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt.

One of the most fascinating discoveries of ancient Egypt was the discovery of the Egyptian Coffin Texts, a collection of spellbinding funerary spells and incantations inscribed on coffins, sarcophagi, ...

Ramses II was a bit of a megalomaniac. He ruled ancient Egypt for 66 years and died at the age of 91 - at a time when the average age of humans was about 35.

Hecate was a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology—not a witch, as she is sometimes mistakenly linked with Halloween. She is most often depicted holding torches, a key, or snakes, or ...