The priesthood helped preserve old traditions that underpinned Egyptian culture and its hierarchy helped keep order within society. Religion and priests were central to everyday life in ancient Egypt.

A massive burial ground holding the remains of several high priests of ancient Egypt, along with their assistants, has been discovered in the northern part of the site of Tuna el-Gebel ...

Special priests worked as embalmers ... which had to travel through the Underworld to the Final Judgment and entrance to the Afterlife. To the Egyptian, all three were essential. After death, the ...

The “most important” tomb archeologists found belonged to Khnum-djed-ef, who was a priest, an inspector of ... neat nine statues of the ancient Egyptian people. A final mummy was found inside ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian cemetery dated to more than 3,000 years ago containing the colorful coffin of a high priest's daughter and preserved ...

The document was used by Egyptian priests to guide the dead to the afterlife. Alongside the scroll, archaeologists found the mummies of high-ranking officials. Archaeologists excavating a 3,500 ...

This has led some experts to suggest that the figure might represent a protective god of commerce or a syncretic deity created under Egyptian influences to suit local Phoenician contexts. Side view of ...

Ancient stone and wooden tombs containing the mummified bodies of high priests and officials from 3,400 years ago have been unearthed in Egypt. The cemetery includes coffins inscribed with the ...