An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

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

A rare gilded and complete Book of the Dead, used by ancient Egyptians to help them to the afterlife, is now on display in Brooklyn In the ancient world, travel to eternal bliss was not easy. For the ...

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom were discovered by a team of archaeologists ...

He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland ...

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 ...

AN ancient necklace and mummy mask were among the “priceless” artefacts snatched from an Australian museum. A 52-year-old man has been charged after allegedly smashing a window at the Abbey Museum of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have announced significant discoveries at Qubbet El-Hawa, a major necropolis in the country’s south. Working under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the recent mission near ...

You must have seen that photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of the British king, attempting to hide in the back seat of a car, eyes reddened by the ...

The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the oldest of which are done in red and dated to between 10,000 and 5,500 BCE. A ...

Our understanding of ancient Egyptian technology has evolved thanks to experts reevaluating a small metal object. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna have had ...