For more than two millennia, the death and burial of Macedonian king Alexander the Great have been shrouded in mystery. He perished in 323 B.C.E. after suffering from a baffling illness for 12 days — ...

It is located between the modern villages of Palatitsia and Vergina, in Northern Greece (Region of Hemathia ... This is vividly demonstrated in particular by the remarkable series of royal tombs and ...

In the earlier research, it was found that many of Alexander the Great's family members were laid to rest in the Royal Tombs at Vergina. In the new research, Bartsiokas and colleagues checked the ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it.

Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs, has been confirmed by the New Kingdom Research Foundation, a British-Egyptian archaeological team led by Piers Litherland.

making it the last of the lost tombs of the kings of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty that reigned between 1550 and 1292 B.C.E. and the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since that of King Tut ...

Remains of inscriptions depicting the goddesses Isis and Nephthys were found in the tomb, with yellow cartouches that once bore the king's name in hieroglyphs. Child buried in a cemetery that was ...