Why did Hatshepsut have her husband buried to the west of the Valley of the Kings, while she was buried in the valley itself?

And because this tomb was flooded shortly after Thutmose II's burial, his mummy and the majority of his grave goods were removed by ancient officials and placed elsewhere — but their ultimate ...

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

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Archaeologists unearthed graves filled with "grave goods," objects that in some cultures were traditionally buried with the dead as a sort of sacrificial gesture, as well as cremated human remains ...

What it tells us is what people thought about them and what they thought was appropriate to go into the grave," she said. "It's a little picture of the community and how they were burying their ...

Further excavations have revealed at least 200 burials and a wealth of grave goods dating to the ninth through sixth centuries B.C.E. Artifacts like weapons and armor hint at trade with ...

Experts believe flooding in the area fully preserved the site and the bevy of grave goods that were inside the tombs. A fully preserved burial ground—complete with 7.8-foot-tall stelae used as ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Archaeologists were stunned by the sheer number of bronze mirrors among grave goods at a large keyhole-shaped burial mound here, more than 100 in all, a record.

No human remains, grave goods, or inscriptions were recovered from the looted tomb, which was also damaged by the collapse of a tomb situated above it. Several scenes remain on the tomb walls ...