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Egyptian tombs yield all manner of surprises. One of the most macabre, recalls archaeologist Dr Mary Hartley, emerged during ...
Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...
I return to you with this video, as Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany, said that the archaeologists ...
Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.
In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...
He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
Archaeologists have discovered the 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb of "Idi," a local governor's daughter who lived during Egypt's Middle Kingdom (circa 2030 to 1640 B.C.). She was buried ...
In 2023 and 2024, internet users shared photos that purportedly showed an ancient Egyptian coffin lid featuring a painting of Marge Simpson, the long-suffering matriarch in FOX animated series ...
Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), ... the mummies were placed in a coffin and the coffin was put in a special room in the pyramid called the burial chamber.
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...
Ancient Egyptian coffin dating to 650 BC restored after 26 years. Coffin's history in the UK is unclear; once used as a storage box. Set to be displayed at Swansea University's Egypt Center.