In Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, a dig is shedding light on the routines of a community that lived about 3,500 years ago. The ...

A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning ...

Researchers and Egyptian restorers working at the Temple of Edfu have uncovered remarkable traces of its original appearance.

From ancient Egyptian flood strategies to Mayan agricultural techniques, the ancient world can teach us how to live with ...

The standard image of an ancient Egyptian mummy often features a very specific type of person and pose. A royal figure is ...

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are no ...

Wide horizons, silence, heat, sand and stone. In tourism brochures they become dramatic scenery. In archaeological writing ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three tombs at the Sheikh Sobi site. These burials include mummies and ...

In-depth analysis shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years. The post Mummies were buried on top of one another ...

Egypt’s Theban necropolis holds over 400 tombs, a rich resource for archaeologists eager to learn more about that region’s ancient history. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in ...

Placement of mummies in a Theban tomb – from individual placement to stacking of bodies – shows how burial practices and ...

Even Presidents had to get clever in the heat, such as building a screened-in porch on top of the White House just to catch a ...