The concept of “god” and “ goddess ” is one of the most ancient, predating recorded history itself. While this concept means different things for different people, its etymological root is connected ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protect agriculture specialists at Detroit Metro Airport discovered a live Egyptian locust in a traveler’s luggage from Albania. Egyptian locusts are an invasive species ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

Egyptian conservators—many trained by Japanese experts—have led cutting-edge work across 19 laboratories covering wood, metal, papyrus, textiles and more.

This ancient Egyptian left behind 4,500-year-old DNA. Researchers recreated his face. Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher the ancient messages.

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

In contrast, Egyptian papyrus was made by slicing the papyrus plant's pith into strips, layering them crosswise, and then pressing them to bond and dry, before being polished into smooth writing ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

But that is what is required to unravel the papyrus scrolls found in Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within ...