Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

"Both cultures placed deep emphasis on unity, spirituality, and the afterlife," Xue notes. "Egyptians imagined a glorious ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

At least, that’s what Luke is hoping for when he shows up unannounced after a year of no contact. In the span of an afternoon ...

I am writing this from the Grand Rotunda in the British Museum. The 2025 UCO London Study Tour is in full swing.

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

A mummified body, found within a crypt at St. Thomas am Blasenstein in Austria, has confounded researchers for centuries. The ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

It’s nearing the end of my 11-day Egypt experience, and there’s always something new to see. It’s easy to sit on the deck of the sleek Viking river ship—one of six in the cruise line’s Nile fleet—and ...

Scarring from tattooing, called keloids, occurs more frequently on dark skin. It happens when tattoo artists press harder or ...

However, the U.S. is not known for the Panel of Fayoum mummies, or parts of a temple believed to belong to Queen Hatshepsut.