The Old Kingdom pharaoh, Khufu, is responsible for one of Egypt's most famous monuments: the Great Pyramid. Ruling sometime around 2600-2566 BCE, Khufu was a member of the Fourth Dynasty and ...

Conventional wisdom holds that Egypt’s Old Kingdom collapsed around 2150 B.C., soon after the death of pharaoh Pepi II, whose pyramid is now a pile of rubble.

The 4,100-year-old tomb features intricate carvings and artwork. Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a tomb belonging to a doctor who treated pharaohs. Fox News Media ...

Archaeologists discovered a 3,600-year-old pharaoh's tomb near Abydos, Egypt, 23 feet underground. The tomb, linked to the Abydos Dynasty, was plundered, erasing the pharaoh's name.

Excavations take place at the site of a 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber of an unknown king, in Abydos, Egypt, March 25, 2025. (Dr. Josef Wegner/Penn Museum) ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

The Second Intermediate Period began almost a millennium after the construction of the towering Giza pyramids outside Cairo that held the tombs of certain Old Kingdom pharaohs. Many New Kingdom ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...