The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.
A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.
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 ...
In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...
Explore ancient Egypt through the eyes of researcher Brian Forster as he reviews a 2018 expedition to some of the country’s most mysterious archaeological sites. This video examines massive granite ...
Ancient graffiti written in Indian languages has been uncovered on tomb walls in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, scholars have revealed. One enthusiastic visitor named Cikai Korran left his mark eight ...
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 ...
A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...
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 ...