This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago – right when the first pyramids were being built. The ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

A discovery within the Great Pyramid of Giza could soon reshape our understanding of ancient Egypt, according to tantalizing ...

More than four thousand years after its construction, the Pyramid of Menkaure, the third largest of the Giza pyramids, ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a massive limestone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a human, has long represented the power of ancient Egypt.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studied the geologic history around the Karnak Temple near Luxor to distinguish when the famed temple could have been constructed. The ...

While we are most familiar with the Vedic zodiac, the ancient Egyptians also had their own sophisticated system of astrology. Unlike the Greco-Roman system, which is based on constellations, the ...

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