Download free for iPad the high-quality reconstruction of a game board from 2600 B.C., found in the Royal Tombs of Ur (Mesopotamia). You can play in single- or local two-player mode on a single ...

The Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty form a collection of 40 tombs scattered over 18 locations. Built over five centuries, from 1408 to 1966, the tombs honoured the memory of ancestors, showed ...

Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of 30 kings and queens starting with King Edward the Confessor whose magnificent shrine stands just behind the High Altar. Henry III, who built the church ...

The royal tomb in Abydos provides new scientific evidence on the development of royal tombs in the Anubis Mountain necropolis,' said Dr Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme ...

At Ur, Woolley found royal tombs which themselves could have been the stuff of fiction. It was Woolley who famously gave Agatha Christie both a husband - she married his assistant - and the inspir ...

The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of the site is agricultural, farmed by traditional methods. At its core on the ...

SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- The Cultural Heritage Administration's Royal Palaces and Tombs Center announced on Friday that it will host the 54th memorial rites at the royal tombs of the Joseon ...

The find provides new evidence of the development of royal tombs at the necropolis. Archaeologists also found faded inscriptions on either side of the entrance leading to the burial chamber.

The tomb was the last of the lost royal tombs from ancient Egypt’s famed Eighteenth Dynasty, dating back to approximately the ...