This picture taken on October 27, 2021, shows a statue—dated to the mid-3rd millennium B.C.—of an ancient Egyptian scribe seated cross-legged, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold ...

Of course, it would not be a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts without mummies ... sitting in the traditional cross-legged pose of scribes with a roll of papyrus spread out over his ...

Building ancient Egypt’s famed pyramids was an enormous ... This is probably due to the fact that the cross-legged sitting or kneeling position was common and natural in the rest of the ...

Today Egyptian obelisks can be found in New ... Rome’s pope and clergy held a ceremony that placed a Christian cross at the top to mark the ancient obelisk’s new association with Christianity.

Kinship is the act of returning the ancient body of a mummified man to Egypt. It follows in a series of large-scale art projects created over the past three decades set in extraor ...

The Eye of Horus engraved on a gold plate. This artifact was found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Psusennes I, who ruled more than 3,000 years ago. . | Credit: DEA / S. VANNINI via ...