The tomb's giant false door. The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit of the deceased could go in and out through it. . | Credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

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 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 ...

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The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...

A new study has uncovered the "woody," "spicy," and "sweet" scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, shedding light on the mummification process and its evolution over time. Researchers from UCL and ...

Saqqara is located about 25 miles southwest of Cairo as "one of the most important cities in ancient Egyptian history," says the Ministry’s website. It adds, "Saqqara is truly an open-air museum ...

A few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating back to the sixth century BCE. Subsequent finds at the site indicate that ...

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls ...

Those marks could be signs that someone tried to operate on the man shortly before his death or performed the ancient Egyptian equivalent of an autopsy to learn more about the cancer after death.

But their attempts to map different parts of Nut’s body onto sections of the Milky Way were inconsistent with each other and didn’t match the ancient Egyptian texts. Carved onto the walls of ...