Prepare to embark on a mesmerizing journey through ancient Egypt at the Hong Kong Palace Museum's latest exhibition, "The Great Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization – Treasures from the ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness. This 110-kilogram solid gold mask once covered the mummy of Tutankhamun ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was discovered ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Excavations at Tell el-Fara’in in Egypt revealed an ancient city from the final years of the Egyptian empire, which once thrived here, dating back to the 4 th century BCE. Using state-of-the-art ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While Osiris is often considered the Egyptian god of the underworld or god of the dead, experts ...