As a German radiation oncologist who grew up in Egypt and had been working at a university hospital in Germany for 12 years, I decided to stay in my homeland with my family for a year to get closer to ...

Ancient Egypt—a civilization that was one of the most powerful the world has ever seen and which lasted for nearly 3,000 years—was among the first to mummify its dead, providing us a window into its ...

Man lived roughly 4,500-4,800 years ago in pharaonic Egypt His remains were placed in ceramic vessel in rock-cut tomb Obtaining DNA from ancient Egyptian remains has been hard July 2 (Reuters) - DNA ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Egyptian authorities on Thursday unveiled dozens of new archaeological discoveries, including two ancient tombs, at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital, Cairo. The ...

Excavations at Tell el-Fara’in in Egypt revealed an ancient city from the final years of the Egyptian empire, which once thrived here, dating back to the 4 th century BCE. Using state-of-the-art ...

Archaeologist discovered a large number of ostraca, or inscribed fragments of pottery, at the ancient Egyptian temple of Athribis. University of Tübingen Researchers excavating the ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers found a 4,000-year-old handprint on the bottom of a "soul house," a clay funerary object popular during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Some ...