The 5,000-year-old manuscript was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and is believed to hold knowledge about the origins of ...

Certain mysteries from the ancient world are still largely unexplained today and continue to puzzle scientists and researchers.

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long ...

It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

(How ancient Egyptians—from kings to commoners ... Unlike other New Kingdom tombs, the art is confined to the burial chamber, and the color scheme is minimal. Historians consider the art ...

In 2025 archaeologists announced the identification of the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II near Luxor’s famed Valley of ...

Archaeologists working in Guatemala’s Petén jungle have discovered three ancient Mayan cities, the country’s Ministry of ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

In the second in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun published in celebration of the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.