Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the first known funeral home from ancient Egypt. The complex included a mummification ...

Learn more about the papyrus that contains detailed medical procedures from Ancient Egypt.

The Book of the Dead is an umbrella term for a series of ancient Egyptian texts. Specific utterances were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and placed in tombs, like the fragment from the tomb ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them to generate the first image of the ancient text. The scroll was buried ...

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Much like cats, crocodiles, and lions, the hippopotamus was a revered animal in ancient Egyptian culture, as it represents ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...