5,000-year-old tombs found in Minya rewrite the origins of Egyptian pyramid architecture (opens in new tab)

Archaeologists working at Jabal al-Tayr in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered two Early Dynastic tombs along with burials dating from the Predynastic and Late Periods. The finds provide new evidence about how ancient Egyptian funerary architecture developed during the centuries before pyramids appeared on the landscape. The excavation was carried out by an Egyptian mission […]