Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...

The largest false door of its kind has been found in an ancient Egyptian tomb, and it is a truly remarkable discovery that ...

In the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, there is only one that still stands today. It is the Great Pyramid of ...

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Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of archaeology’s most significant discoveries. Researchers found its petals covering ...

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A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Got a plague of serpents? Call this guy. Swiss-French archaeologists have uncovered the 4,100-year-old tomb in Egypt that belonged to a royal physician with a very special skill: protecting them from ...

LONDON — 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 ...

Egypt is now linked into a high-speed internet housed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, that allows scientists, students and educators worldwide to collaborate to solve some of the world's ...