A long-overlooked Ancient Egyptian tool is now reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. A ...

Egyptian craftspeople were ‘ahead of their time,’ study says.

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking ...

A small copper object unearthed in Egypt more than a century ago is now at the centre of a major rethink about how early the ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It parallels famous early dynastic scenes like those at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman ...

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

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.

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, ...

The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

Who knew that ancient Egypt was full of mysteries and weird facts that continue to puzzle people to this very day?

“[The king] Unis seizes the sky and splits its iron.” Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of ...