The cemetery provides key clues about how the region transitioned into the great Ancient Egyptian civilization.

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Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the future in a similar way to us, says Annalee Newitz ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old tomb in Saqqara, Egypt that belonged to Teti Neb Fu, a royal witch doctor. Sitting 40km south of Cairo near Giza, Saqqara is an ancient burial ground ...

Now, a team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered ...

Pepi II became king at an early age during the sixth dynasty of ancient Egypt, between 2305 and 2118 B.C., according to Britannica, making the tomb somewhere around 4,000 years old.