The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

The drill’s chemical composition was also surprising, study co-author Jiří Kmošek noted, as it is made up of an unusual copper alloy containing arsenic, nickel, lead, and silver.

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...

A white correction fluid, identified on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...

In reliefs and monuments spanning 3,000 years, the pharaoh holds the heka in his left hand, resting it upon his shoulder. The image encodes a specific claim: Pharaoh is the shepherd of his people; he ...

Have you ever used anything to correct a mistake in your schoolwork? Well, scientists have discovered Ancient Egyptians used a special paste to cover up mistakes in their artwork. The discovery was ...

An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow ...