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

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from ...

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

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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 ...

The ancestor of all “best-of” lists was the Hellenistic accounting of monumental must-sees. Only one remains in anything like ...

Credit: Paleotechnic of Paris, France. Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force ...

It’s a ground-breaking discovery. An international team of researchers recently uncovered evidence that ancient Egyptians were engaged in experimental treatments or medical explorations of human ...

pestis DNA in an ancient Egyptian mummy of an adult male from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. An ancient mummy dating back to 1780BC has traces of The Black Death (Eurac ...

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 ...

Ancient Egyptians leveraged a massive shipping, mining and farming economy to propel their civilization forward Mont-Saint-Michel is trying an extreme makeover to save its dreamlike setting He ...