The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Dr. Josef Wegner, a curator at the Penn Museum, shared insights with Fox News Digital following his recent groundbreaking discovery of a tomb belonging to an unknown pharaoh.

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

The king's reign dates to the "Second Intermediate Period" (circa 1640 to 1540 B.C.), when northern Egypt was ruled by a group called the Hyksos and the southern part of Egypt was controlled by ...

The dynasty existed during the Second Intermediate Period, broadly 1630 B.C.E. to 1539 B.C.E., during which northern Egypt was controlled by the Hyksos, a dynasty that originated in the Levant ...

which archaeologists believe was one of several warring kingdoms across Egypt during the region's Second Intermediate Period. "It's a mystery dynasty," Wegner said of the Abydos kings. Today ...

The tomb is believed to be from Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, when the Hyksos ruled northern Egypt and multiple Egyptian kings controlled the south. Josef Wegner, a professor of Egyptology ...

It dates to around 3,600 years ago during the Second Intermediate Period when northern Egypt was ruled by the so-called Hyksos from western Asia and southern Egypt was ruled by a group of Egyptian ...

"Egypt was fragmented with as many as four ... Its architecture shows connections with earlier Middle Kingdom and later Second Intermediate Period royal tombs, Wegner said. "It seems to be the ...

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However, the researchers who made the discovery believe it is likely the resting place of a king who ruled upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period between 1640 and 1540 BC as part of the ...