Ancient Granary Diorama Discovered in Meketre's Tomb Scribes and Grain Storage Highlight Egypt's Agricultural Strength ...

Magic was a part of everyday life for the ancient Egyptians. They believed that dark powers were everywhere and that they ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago. Researchers find nine mummies they examined all smelled "woody", "spicy" and "sweet". Egypt and Qatar are ...

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn’t fluent enough to decode the text. Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus discovered in Israel reveals sophisticated Roman legal procedures for prosecuting financial crimes, including tax evasion and document forgery related to slave trading. The ...

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Syriac and ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ...

Dwarf Fortress is often called the most complex video game ever made. While that claim is difficult to verify, it can undeniably be quite intimidating to newcomers, with dozens of menus to sort ...