Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Step Pyramid with a blue sky in the background. Saqqara has been used for thousands of years and "the reasons for being buried ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.

Archaeologists uncovered 59 sealed wooden sarcophagi buried for over 2,600 years at Saqqara, Egypt’s vast necropolis near ...

Photos: Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis Canopic jars, which were made to contain organs that were removed from the body in the process of mummification ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

The find in Saqqara included 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities. SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara ...

Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The spaces were found in the ...