With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of ...

Papyrus making workshops transport participants to the ancient world of paper crafting, originating in Egypt 's Nile Delta.

Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor.

After over a decade of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has opened its doors-partially. In late October, GEM ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

When the Egyptian calendar was created around 4,800 ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep. The flask contains ...

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Immersing your senses in an eye-catching cornucopia of vivid hues? Suchi Reddy of New York-based architecture, design and public art studio Reddymade has managed to turn that thought into reality with ...

A papyrus collection in one corner ... If anything, the Grand Egyptian Museum’s incredible facilities and state-of-the-art technology prove that Egypt is more than equipped to finally reclaim ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...