A team of French and Swiss archaeologists has unearthed a remarkable Egyptian tomb dating back over 4,100 years. The burial site belonged to Tetinebefou, a royal physician whose wide-ranging medical ...

Scholars continue to unfurl millennia-old mysteries as archaeological excavations carry on in the ancient necropolis of ...

Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor.

The kiln tomb is filled with vibrant wall painting and inscriptions, and is believed to belong to a witch doctor who likely 'healed' pharaohs from animal bites and stings ...

The discovery was uncovered in Saqqara, the site of the ancient city of Memphis, about 25 miles southwest of Cairo, and has been identified as the final resting place of Tetinebefou. Tetinebefou was a ...

Inside the tomb, researchers found a stone sarcophagus bearing the name “Tetinebefou” in hieroglyphics. The inscriptions also indicate that he was the chief palace physician, priest, chief dentist, ...

Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a celebrated physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, which spanned roughly from 2305 BC to 2118 BC.

Teti Neb Fu (or Tetinebefou) is believed to have been a doctor to the royal family, serving during the reign of King Pepi II. It's a "mastaba" tomb, which is a type of flat-roofed structure often ...

The burial belongs to a doctor named "Tetinebefou," the Swiss-French team that made the discovery reported in a translated blog post. Although the artifacts in the tomb had been plundered ...