Ancient Egyptians truly took this to the next level. The ostraca fragments arguably dealt with mundane matters, such as “tax lists and deliveries… short notes about everyday activities, exercises by ...

The Flaminio Obelisk, an ancient Egyptian artefact, stands tall in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, representing a fascinating ...

In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

Roughly 2,000 years ago, a traveler from southern India stood inside the sacred tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and decided to leave his mark. The man, named Cikai Korran, carved his name into ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

Two Brevard theaters, the Henegar Center and Titusville Playhouse, are opening productions of "The Prince of Egypt" on the ...

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...