"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and ...

Another mysterious Egyptian mummy has kept its secrets for a long time, but now, technology is helping us take a look inside.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old royal tomb from an obscure line of pharohs whose very existence has been in ...

They are among the 269 children who were sacrificed and buried around A.D. 1450 at two sites near Chan Chan, the ancient capital ... pedestal surrounded by minor deities and ears of corn.

For a long time, ancient Egypt was thought to be the starting point ... The age of the burial predates any known Egyptian records, hinting that cat domestication could have begun somewhere else. In a ...

The newly-found ancient Egyptian settlement at the site could date back as far as the 18th Dynasty (c. 1550–1292 BC), as indicated by surviving artefacts. For example, an amphora – a ...

A statue of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. AFP via Getty Images Meanwhile, the central street was impressively sloped to ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted ... and cult centers dedicated to major deities of the Egyptian pantheon, who were venerated alongside ...