Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

It took six years of more painstaking digging at the site of Tell el-Farma, in the eastern extremes of Egypt’s Nile Delta, to ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

A discovery in Egypt is upending everything we know about the origins of the great apes, including that of humans. While scientists have long concentrated their efforts in East Africa, a fossil ...

Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3,000-year-old papyrus scrolls — and whatever’s ...

Have they finally solved the ancient Egyptians’ pyramid scheme? Aliens might not have built the pyramids — but the ancient ...

Tiberius may have been the leader of the Romans, but the sandstone block showed him dressed as a pharaoh.

Black market smugglers vanished with a priceless piece of history—completely unaware of the promise left behind to punish ...

The texts span a vast expanse of time. The oldest shards date back to the third century B.C.E., featuring tax receipts penned ...

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital ...

The U.S. - Egypt Science and Technology (S&T) Joint Fund was established under an agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt to ...