A researcher may have uncovered the oldest written references to Moses, dating back 3,800 years and hidden in an Egyptian desert. The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise ...

Evidence found in papyri and graffiti suggests that ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt with the purpose of admiring its rich civilization. Credit: Sam and Ian / CC BY-NC 2.0. Evidence ...

In the shadow of the magnificent pyramids and alongside powerful deities like Ra and Osiris, a humble amphibian held significant religious importance in Ancient Egypt. Frogs were not merely ...

The relationship between cats and humans stretches back thousands of years, but perhaps nowhere was this connection more profound than in ancient Egypt. From humble beginnings as rodent hunters to ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

The Old Kingdom of Egypt, also known as the ‘Age of the Pyramids’, refers to the period from the Third Dynasty to the Sixth Dynasty (2686 to 2181 BCE). This period has fascinated archaeologists for ...

LONDON — For the first time, scientists have successfully decoded the complete genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived nearly 5,000 years ago. The results from this single individual challenge ...

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Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...

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Man lived roughly 4,500-4,800 years ago in pharaonic Egypt His remains were placed in ceramic vessel in rock-cut tomb Obtaining DNA from ancient Egyptian remains has been hard July 2 (Reuters) - DNA ...