You can see it from the other side of the river.” When and why was the Taj Mahal built? In 1631, Shah Jahan ordered that the Taj Mahal be built to house the tomb of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Every few feet, there’s something to see: lions copied from the tomb ... across the river, near the site Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau would choose for the village of St. Louis. The city’s ...

Though our cultural fascination with the Middle Ages is perennial, the recent revival of pseudo-medieval aesthetics reveals a specific modern yearning.

Many landmarks are located near the meandering banks of the Seine River ... the Arch is a permanent exhibition about the design of the monument. At the bottom of the Arch is the Tomb of the ...

The ancient tomb was found during research work two miles west of the Valley of the Kings near the West Bank of the Nile River. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...

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Archaeologists have found a pharaoh’s tomb near Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the country’s ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a ...

A joint Egyptian-British archaeological project near Luxor found the tomb of Thutmose II ... dedicated to Thutmose IV in the Nile River. According to the National Museum, Thutmose II’s reign ...

The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922. In what has been dubbed a "remarkable discovery", the tomb of Thutmose II, the last ...

Officials said an Egyptian-British archaeological mission found the tomb in the Mount of Thebes area, on the west bank of the Nile river near the city of Luxor, and determined it belonged to King ...

The entrance to the tomb, located at Thebes, a World Heritage Site west of the Nile River and Luxor, was first located in 2022 by a team of Egyptian and British scientists. The team has been ...