November 4 marked a hundred years since British archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, near Luxor. A century on from that legendary find, the ...
Rising from Egypt’s vast ocean of sand, Saqqara is the country’s most expansive necropolis. Among the Old Kingdom monuments in this city of the dead is the famed step pyramid of the pharaoh Djoser.