From easing the passage of the deceased into the afterlife to celebrating the joys of life on Earth, dance was integral to the daily lives of ancient Egyptians. Depictions of dancers on tombs and ...

Scientists have discovered traces of hallucinogens in a small vessel depicting an Egyptian deity that may have been used in ancient rituals Julia Binswanger Found etched into clay cylinders in ...

A Bes mug used in ancient Egyptian rituals. Image: Tampa Museum of Art, Florida/D. Tanasi et al., 2024/Scientific Reports How does a concoction of honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice ...

Crucial Shift in River Nile's Evolution During Ancient Egypt Discovered June 3, 2024 — Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its ...

A roughly 3,900-year-old tomb of an Egyptian priestess named Idy was discovered full of burial goods. Located behind a stone wall within a famous tomb near the ancient city of Asyut, experts were ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share CAIRO (AP) — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed ...

Researchers discovered the burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian priestess Idy, daughter of the regional governor Djefaihapi I, in a previously inaccessible section of his monumental tomb from ...

What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt that now stands in the British Museum in London.

Later acquisitions came increasingly from well-documented archaeological excavations. The civilisation of ancient Egypt arose in the fourth millennium BC and only waned in the first four centuries AD, ...

Forgotten Giants: Were There Really Giants in Ancient Times? One of the most enduring myths of humankind is that pertaining to giants. In almost every major civilization and culture in the world, ...

Each October, an expedition from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) returns to Chicago House, their headquarters in Luxor, Egypt. Known as the Epigraphic ...