The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.

Inscriptions on the sarcophagus and art in the tomb showed the person buried there was once a powerful physician to the king. Screengrab from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Facebook page ...

From these elaborate decorations on the sarcophagus, the team from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found that the remains belong to the royal doctor from the old state of Saqarra ...

Throughout history, the eccentricities of the aristocracy have been a source of intrigue and bemusement. There are plenty of stories of this ilk in Scotland, but few capture my imagination quite ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...

The find illuminates some extraordinary, previously unknown facts about ancient culture. A team of archaeologists working in ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 ...