In Ancient Egypt, the gods and pharaohs were depicted with a crown, which, according to Egyptologists, was also taken into the grave for the afterlife. However, these crowns have never been found physically, neither inside nor outside graves. Did these crowns really exist? Could grave robbers have taken them all? Not all graves were looted before archaeologists discovered them and this strengthens the idea that the crowns were only used in depictions and statues, to indicate a certain, important phase in the life of a pharaoh.   So it is perhaps not special that no crowns have ever been found, nor any of the artifacts that accompanied the pharaohs, like, for instance: the crook or the flail and the ankh or the was-sceptre that accompanied the gods.  Read moreSection: NewsGeneralAncient PlacesAfricaOpinionRead Later