16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb

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The Theban Necropolis, located across the Nile from Luxor, contains more than 400 tombs. In a new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, researchers in Spain took a closer look at chamber three inside tomb TT 209 to understand how the burial space changed over time.

The tomb was constructed during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (754-656 BCE) and remained in use until the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE), when it was eventually abandoned. By...

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