The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches ...
Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. Ancient architects built a hydraulic system for hoisting ...
The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never before seen in ancient Egyptian culture.
Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when Egyptologists took a closer look, they were able to piece together how the art form ...
The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it. Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive necropolis ...
The tombs date back to the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate eras. Egypt announced on Thursday the discovery of five ancient tombs in Saqqara, marking the latest in a series of discoveries in the ...
Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the museum just days after its long-awaited opening. Sarah Erdman A colossal statue ...
A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...
Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 3,300-year-old whistle made from a cow's toe bone, believed to have been used by police to guard royal tomb workers. The artifact was found in the ruins of ...
Aug 2 (Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks ...