The three men lived in the New Kingdom period more than 3,000 years ago Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

Doctors used CT scans to study ancient Egyptian mummies, uncovering injuries, aging, and personal details without disturbing ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Tutankhamun's tomb was one of the few royal Egyptian burials left largely untouched by ancient looters. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 4, 1922, workers led by British archaeologist ...

A new study suggests the ergonomics of an Egyptian scribe’s working life may be revealed in their bones. Statues from Abusir, Egypt depict the scribe Nefer and his wife. New research suggests that ...

The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his tomb.