Archaeologists from Charles University in Prague have begun to excavate a funerary boat that dates back to the Third or Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, circa 2550 BC. The Abusir region ...

Beneath the golden sands west of the Nile, at the ancient Egyptian sacred site of Abydos, archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery: a whole fleet of boats that were sketched onto the ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the ...

Vikings burned the deceased in boats to grant safe passage into the ... burial practices in living history is mummification. Ancient Egyptians began mummifying the dead as early as 3,500 B.C.E ...

The Nile provided vast amounts of fertile land and was a major route for communications and travel - it was the freeway of ancient Egypt. Boats moved cattle, grain and soldiers across the Kingdom ...

A stunning New Year's scene painted by ancient Egyptians has been uncovered by ... (also called Sah), Sothis and Anukis on neighboring boats with the sky goddess Nut swallowing the evening sky ...

Remnants of funerary boats have also been excavated ... an important source of information about Egyptian religion. The scarcity of ancient records, however, makes it difficult to be sure of the uses ...