The tomb dates to a period known as the Middle Kingdom (circa 2030 to 1640 B.C.), a time when Egypt was unified and thriving. "This is the first Middle Kingdom tomb found in the area," the team ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old royal tomb from an obscure line of pharohs whose very existence has been in ...

This civilization grew in power just as Egypt’s Middle Kingdom was in decline around 1785 B.C. By 1500 B.C., the Nubian empire roughly stretched from Wadi Halfa south to Meroë. Centered on its ...

The find, spanning the Middle Kingdom to the height of the 18th dynasty, provides invaluable insights into the political and ...

the Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age and the New Kingdom of the Late Bronze Age. Despite the region’s impressive heritage and history, Egypt was not an independent nation until 1922 under ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

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"Egypt was fragmented with as many as four ... Its architecture shows connections with earlier Middle Kingdom and later Second Intermediate Period royal tombs, Wegner said. "It seems to be the ...