Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life ...

What was it like to live in ancient Egypt during an era of sweeping change? Although we can't put ourselves in the shoes of ancient Egyptians, we at least know how one of them may have lived now that ...

X-ray scans conducted on a 2,000-year-old mummy have revealed that the ancient Egyptian lived with an aching lower back, not unlike many modern humans. Radiologists subjected two mummies dated to ...

Scientists have developed new methods to recreate perfumes used during the ancient Egyptian mummification process, an advance that could lead to multisensory museum experiences in the future. In ...

The lives and craft of ancient Egyptian artisans are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Sketch showing a stonemason at work, holding a chisel ...

Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...