The Hetepheres collection now sits among the thousands of incredible artefacts at the newly-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ...

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Ancient Granary Diorama Discovered in Meketre's Tomb Scribes and Grain Storage Highlight Egypt's Agricultural Strength ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ...

UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

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Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of these substances were found to be genuine plaster - which consists of ...

The incomplete Edwin Smith Papyrus was significant because it provided the first evidence that the ancient Egyptians knew more about the human body and medicine than was previously believed.

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.