The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

According to The Met, this marble dwarf-dancer, who may have held an ancient percussion instrument, is thus part of "the long Egyptian tradition in which dwarves were integrated in society and had ...

The mug is decorated with the face of the demon Bes. Chemical analysis revealed evidence of plants with psychotropic and medicinal properties in the mug, the first evidence of ancient Egyptian use.

An ancient Egyptian painting shows the pharaoh Tutankhamun on a chariot hunting lions with his dog. In ancient Egypt, various gods were depicted with domestic dog or jackal heads that resemble ...

Ancient Egyptians are known to have attempted to treat brain cancer, diagnose diabetes, use crocodile dung for contraception, and may have been aware that some sitting positions could lead to bone ...

The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on display ...

Teti Neb Fu’s elaborate burial shows the ancient Egyptian kingdom revered both medicine and magic, archaeologists said.

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window ...

Credit: Paleotechnic of Paris, France. Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force ...