Archaeologists are stunned after discovering a copy of Homer's Iliad on an Egyptian mummy, revealing unexpected ancient ...

Beneath the farmland of Minya governorate in central Egypt, a team of archaeologists recently opened a cluster of sealed ...

Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife. Papyri were plentiful in the ...

Painting your tongue gold doesn’t do much good here on Earth, but ancient Egyptians believed giving the deceased a golden amulet in place of a tongue would allow them to speak in the afterlife.

Ongoing excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, have unearthed two mummification workshops and the tombs of two significant priests. The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

CAIRO — A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara south of ...