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 new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

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 ...

A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

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