The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even ...

While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white ...

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here we see the entrance to at ancient Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel. There are four giant seated pharaohs, two on either side of ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

The 25th Dynasty originated in Nubia, in what is today Sudan, and ruled over ancient Egypt between 744 and 656 BC.

On 11 March, a joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known ...

Discover the truth! We debunk 25 common myths about ancient civilizations, from pyramid builders to Cleopatra's heritage. Separate fact from fiction and ex ...

Astronomy was the basis of many key beliefs for the ancient Egyptians. They used skywatching to fix the dates of religious festivals, to predict the annual flooding of the Nile, and to count the hours ...