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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 ...

It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, hidden among the rugged cliffs and wind-carved passageways, faint carvings etched into the ...

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive limestone burial chamber was uncovered within a royal necropolis in Abydos, Egypt. Who the tomb belonged to remains a ...

A sarcophagus that contained the mummified remains of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great is part of an exhibition that’s getting an extended run in Japan’s capital city. Ramses the Great and the Gold ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

CAIRO — The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago – the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. 80% of his ancestry was related to ...