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Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, a blend of art and language, served as a vital record of their civilization's beliefs and achievements for over three millennia. Used for sacred and monumental purposes, ...

This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

Ancient Egypt's mummification ingredients came from far-flung locales By Will Dunham February 1, 20238:18 AM PSTUpdated February 1, 2023 ...