Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in place of their tongues, a startling detail that fuses ritual, status, and ...

Newly excavated Egyptian tombs dating back roughly 4,000 years are yielding a cache of rare relics that is reshaping how I understand life and death along the Nile. From intact jewelry hoards and ...

A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

The powerful Egyptian Queen’s final resting place is still a mystery. Nefertiti's life details are sparse; much known is largely conjecture. Archaeologist Zahi Hawass believes he may be close to ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

Science Alert reports that an ancient sarcophagus has been unearthed 16 feet below ground in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have ...

Hidden behind pyramid-like mounds of construction dirt and tucked deep inside the innermost chamber of the North Carolina Museum of Art lies a little piece of ancient history. Temples and Tombs: ...