Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

As crews dug through the soil along the Nile in Southern Egypt, skeletons slowly emerged from the dirt. The area had once been an ancient graveyard, but looting and housing projects had damaged the ...

With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 in a ...

(Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like ...

Visitors tour the site in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, where archaeologists unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, on May 27, 2023. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP ...

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different. "In ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of ...

A woman who lived more than 3,000 years ago in Egypt had holes in the bones of her joints, suggesting she suffered from a rare autoimmune disease, researchers said. Mant, M., et al, International ...