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The next day, we went to Giza to see the pyramids as well as the Sphinx. It was so surreal to be in the vicinity of both of ...

His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer, journalist and author who served 16 terms as a member of Congress for Ohio and, later, New York—was no pillager of pyramids.

The result was a megatomb described by the research team as the largest concentration of coffins ever unearthed in Egypt. Great collections of mummies and coffins have been found before ...

While studying a Greek settlement from 332BC in northern Egypt, archaeologists made a stunning discovery — a hidden mud brick ...

Also in the mix is the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, another landmark that fully opened in 2021 and whose main draw is its haunting collection of royal mummies. All three are worthy of ...