A new study published in 2024 has revealed that Old Kingdom Egypt's scribes had work-related osteoarthritis that can still be seen in their bones. Thousands of years before the Romans or the ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools ...

Five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom was a highly advanced civilization where the kings, known as pharaohs, were believed to be gods. They lived amidst palaces and ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed ... But over the years, the joint mission, led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the New Kingdom Research Foundation, ...

Many pharaoh’s tombs in Egypt were discovered by Western researchers ... of the ancient burial sites. Unlike their Old and Middle Kingdom predecessors, who built pyramids as funerary monuments ...

As part of the Sky History programme Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code, he travelled to the country after hearing “this ...