Some 2,000 years ago, a man from India named Cikai Korran scratched his name in several places inside rocky tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the sacred burial site of pharaohs and elites, ...
I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...
The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs ...
The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.
In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...
A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.
In reliefs and monuments spanning 3,000 years, the pharaoh holds the heka in his left hand, resting it upon his shoulder. The image encodes a specific claim: Pharaoh is the shepherd of his people; he ...
It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...
The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...
Philadelphia residents and visitors were presented with the unique opportunity to take a step back in time Saturday. The Penn ...
Published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the study assessed 35 balm and bandage samples from 19 mummies dating ...
A white correction fluid, identified on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...