The Ancient Egyptian Struggle with Climate In the face of today's extreme weather events, from scorching heatwaves to ...

Is the Grand Egyptian Museum worth visiting? What you can see – and what’s missing – before it fully opens - After a wait of ...

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat, and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet ...

The plaster face mold on the cistern was found at an ancient house — dubbed the “House of Leukaktios” by the archaeological ... An ancient port city perched on the east African coast, it was founded ...

Researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana have made history with a groundbreaking study, the first to systematically analyse the smells of mummified bodies. Using a combination of high ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located around 30 miles west of ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell "sweet," "woody" and "spicy," reveals new research. The study is the first time that the smells of mummified bodies have been systematically analyzed, combining ...

It has a gilded face and a scarab beetle pendant. Scarab beetles were very important to ancient Egyptians - they symbolised the restoration of life. This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from ...

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana looked into details about ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...

The missing tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II has been unearthed. It is the first royal tomb discovery in over 100 years, since the unveiling of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...