Papyrus 75 is a single sheet of papyrus that contains the oldest known copy of the Lord’s Prayer, a fragment of the Gospel of ...

It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt in ... These include texts hidden inside medieval book bindings or ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings, for which “it’s here, and ...

This groundbreaking discovery reveals the DNA of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague, in a mummy from ...

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 ...

One ancient Egyptian medical text known as the Ebers Papyrus, dated to 1500 B.C., describes a 'Black Death'-like illness that 'produced a bubo' of tell-tale 'petrified' pus. Then in 2004 ...

Egypt has achieved a historic milestone with the initial public offering (IPO) of United Bank on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX). This would be the first bank listing in over 25 years and the country’s ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

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.

Solar alignment at the temple in Karnak, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt) The Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt offered a dazzling spectacle as the rising sun aligned perfectly ...

After conquering Phoenicia in 332 BC, Alexander the Great looked onward to Egypt. The city of Alexandria was built at the edge of the Nile Delta and is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

As the state rounds up dissidents and dodges economic reforms, there is little hope for a course correction in the year ahead Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attends the G20 meeting in Rio ...