DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt." The book, which centers around a teenager named Pepi and his father's efforts to secure him a job in the royal court, draws on a 4,000-year-old piece of ...

For the past two centuries, scientists could only speculate about certain embalming ingredients mentioned in ancient texts. But this workshop, discovered in 2016 by the late Egyptian scientist ...

These include texts hidden inside medieval book bindings or ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings, for which “it’s here, and we hold the physical object, but we can’t read the writing”.

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments ...

For centuries, children in Ancient Egypt learned to read using a text known as The Satire of the Trades, a document dating back to around 2400 BCE. This educational text presents advice from a father ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death ...

This ancient Egyptian tax receipt is for 75 "talents" (a unit of currency), with an added 15-talent charge. To put this number into perspective, just one talent was worth 6,000 drachma, and 90 ...