Archaeologists have uncovered nine crocodile heads concealed within ancient Egyptian tombs of nobles, a discovery that one archaeologist told Newsweek was "the first of its kind." The discovery was ...

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Spanish archaeologists made an unusual discovery in southern Egypt. In 2019, archaeologists from the University of Jaén unearthed a tomb containing several mummified crocodiles at ...

A crocodile that swam the Nile River thousands of years ago was found mummified in Egypt with a last meal still in its belly. Leon Pauleikhoff via Unplash At an oasis south of Cairo, Egypt, ...

A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

In 2023, archaeologists from Spain and Egypt uncovered an extraordinary find at Qubbat al-Hawa, a necropolis near Aswan that has long served as a burial site for Egypt’s elite. Inside one of its ...

Ancient Egypt was filled with gods of power, war, and fertility, but few were as fearsome and revered as Sobek, the crocodile-headed deity. Worshiped as a protector, a creator of the Nile, and a ...

Ancient mummified crocodiles recovered from an undisturbed tomb in Egypt were preserved in a "unique" manner, scientists have found, and some of the bodies were even decapitated after being dried out.