On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs ... and remote sensing to map the spacious burial complex.

Kom el-Nugus, which was first excavated in 2013, is around 43 kilometres west of Alexandria, on a rock ridge between the Mediterranean Sea and ... an ancient city buried below Egypt’s pyramids.

The settlement was found at the site of Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) west of Alexandria on a rocky ridge between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mariout.