Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

A discovery in Egypt is upending everything we know about the origins of the great apes, including that of humans. While scientists have long concentrated their efforts in East Africa, a fossil ...

It took six years of more painstaking digging at the site of Tell el-Farma, in the eastern extremes of Egypt’s Nile Delta, to ...

Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...

Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3,000-year-old papyrus scrolls — and whatever’s ...

The texts span a vast expanse of time. The oldest shards date back to the third century B.C.E., featuring tax receipts penned ...

Researchers believe the hidden object may be a papyrus scroll or an amulet.

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

Black market smugglers vanished with a priceless piece of history—completely unaware of the promise left behind to punish ...

The U.S. - Egypt Science and Technology (S&T) Joint Fund was established under an agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt to ...