Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

In Ancient Egypt, women held significant roles and enjoyed legal rights such as property ownership and equality in court. Widows gained additional freedoms, including land transactions and the ability ...

Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography revisits the life and career of the Nobel laureate physicist.

In a nutshell Ancient Egyptian artisans developed precise, repeatable recipes to create four distinct shades of Egyptian blue, the world’s first synthetic pigment, long before the science of chemistry ...

Three tombs 'made by pure Egyptian hands' have been found in the archaeological site of Dra Abu el-Naga on the Luxor West Bank, Egypt.

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

Archaeologists were astonished to find that a false door at an excavation site led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty, as announced by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The Khufu ship, a full-size solar barque, at the Giza Solar boat museum (2500 BC), during the Fourth Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Credit: Ovedc . CC-BY-SA-4.0 The ancient Egyptians ...

A wooden diorama depicting a granary with scribes has been discovered in the tomb of Meketre, a high-ranking official from ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom. Found in 1920 in a hidden chamber within his ...

This decorated wooden diorama was discovered in a secret chamber of an ancient Egyptian tomb in Thebes (now Luxor) in 1920. The enormous tomb was that of Meketre, the chief steward of the pharaoh ...

Widely considered to be the world’s first synthetic pigment, Egyptian Blue traces its origins back more than 5,000 years, to roughly 3250 B.C.E. Crafted by heating a mixture of ground limestone, sand, ...