SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Did you know there’s an almost 30-foot-tall pyramid in Salt Lake City, right next door to an otherwise normal residential neighborhood? And, yes, there is at least one human ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found a large animal mummy that may contain the remains of a lion or lioness. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities said on Monday the mummy was excavated in Saqqara, a town ...

King Snefru's son went on to build the Great Pyramid at Giza. For the second time in less than two weeks, Egypt government officials on Saturday opened a new pyramid to the public, welcoming visitors ...

SAQQARA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists found a rare intact mummy dating to pharaonic times when they opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus on Wednesday in the shadow of the world's oldest ...

Egypt may be home to the most famous pyramids, but the new three-hour Learning Channel documentary “Pyramids, Mummies and Tombs,” airing Sunday, notes that these ancient, mammoth religious structures ...

For the first time since 1965, two pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians, including the unique "Bent Pyramid," are being opened to the public, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. The ...

A cache of recently discovered mummified cats, cobras, crocodiles, and birds was put on display in Egypt on Saturday as more details were revealed. Archaeologists discovered the trove last year near ...

Archaeologists have found a pyramid belonging to a previously unknown ancient Egyptian queen outside King Tut's tomb, along with a trove of coffins, mummies, artifacts, and a network of tunnels. As ...

LAHUN, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The ...

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WARSAW, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, archaeologists led by Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz of the University of Warsaw uncovered dozens of poorly preserved 2,000-year-old mummies in the area ...