Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

This discovery offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a healer who served at the court of Pepi II, one of Egypt’s longest-reigning pharaohs. “This incredible find adds to Saqqara’s ...

A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission discovered a 4,000-year-old mudbrick mastaba tomb belonging to Teti Neb Fu, a royal physician from the reign of Pharaoh Pepi II, at the Saqqara ...

The doctor may have served under Pepi II, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom around the 23rd century B.C.E. He was crowned as a child and retained the throne for 60 to 90 years.

Adjacent to Titi Nep-Fu’s tomb, archaeologists also identified remnants of a mastaba belonging to Ouni the Elder, vizier to Pharaoh Pepi I. This connection indicates that the area was a ...