Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Analyzing samples of mummies from different dynastic periods showed how the mixtures of substances used in mummification became more complex with time.

The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life ...

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what ...

The Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold exhibition at Battersea Power Station will display more than 180 treasures from ancient ...

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...