A new X-ray analysis of a 3,000-year-old painting of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses-II has revealed what archaeologists suspect are strange “touch-ups” made to the artwork over years.

Disappearing hands The first painting in the study is in the tomb chapels of Menna, an official who served under pharaoh Amenhotep III. The work is considered “the apogee of ancient Egyptian ...

In ancient Egypt, boats were sometimes buried near a pharaoh’s tomb. [In Photos: Tomb Painting Discovered Near Great Pyramid of Giza] Etchings and a boat.

The biggest mystery throughout the entire series was the Pharaoh’s name, Atem, and in this slick fan painting sees the Pharaoh, widely known as “Yami Yugi,” meet his original Egyptian namesake.