While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

The recent premiere of the documentary The Mystery of the Lost Pyramid on the Smithsonian Channel has unveiled an ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

How do you create an exhibition geared specifically for children? This is the question that preoccupies curators at east ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

The next God of War is potentially heading to Egypt, and these are the gods and goddesses we want to meet when we get there.

In July 2018, archaeologists unearthed a sprawling, ancient Egyptian “funeral home” beneath Saqqara. The trove of discoveries pointed toward a substantial funeral industry in ancient Egypt and has ...

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have just opened a sealed pyramid for the first time in 4,000 years—but what they found inside wasn’t ...

But starting in the eighth century B.C., Nubian pharaohs from a Kushite kingdom, now in northern Sudan, ruled Egypt. For more than a hundred years, they revived and adapted ancient Egyptian ...

Upon investigation, experts examined the damaged hieroglyphs on a chest found inside. This revealed the name of Princess ...