For thousands of years, Abydos has been the city of the dead. It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial sites, guarding the secrets of many kings and important people from Egyptian society.

While the awe-inspiring replica of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, adorned in gold leaf and intricate carvings, is undoubtedly a ...

During this ritual, four guides (each bearing a torch) stand by the sarcophagus to accompany the pharaoh through the treacherous journey to the afterlife until he reached Osiris and the Hall of ...

The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922 ... He believes that clay trays and wooden staffs positioned near Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus were important parts of the “Osirian funerary ...

the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, by his son and successor Djedefre. For four and a half millennia, it lay undisturbed in its limestone sarcophagus. In 1954, Egyptian archeologist Kamal el ...

Carter eventually found the site of the pharaoh's remains in November 1922, but it took another three months before the archaeologist finally found the sarcophagus itself. Tutankhamen's tomb is ...