While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Many of the coffins appear to belong to women who held the title 'Singer of Amun' ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a cache of colorful coffins containing mummies, along with a collection of rare papyri dating back to the Third Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt, d ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

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Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

Philadelphia residents and visitors were presented with the unique opportunity to take a step back in time Saturday. The Penn ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently found the tomb of an unknown pharaoh who ruled during a turbulent period about 3,600 years ago, the Penn Museum said Thursday. Penn researchers and Egyptian ...

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive limestone burial chamber was uncovered within a royal necropolis in Abydos, Egypt. Who the tomb belonged to remains a ...