Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

INDIANAPOLIS, February 5, 2008 - The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, which will be on view July 13 - September ...

Ancient Egyptian funerary paintings have long been admired for their formal and structured nature, but a recent study conducted by an international team of scientists revealed new insights into the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian cemetery dated to more than 3,000 years ago containing the colorful coffin of a high priest's daughter and preserved mummies, among hundreds of other ...

Archaeologists have uncovered dozens of ancient Egyptian tombs and numerous artifacts, including a remarkable set of objects made from gold foil. An Egyptian archaeological mission coordinated by the ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

Ongoing archaeological missions at the necropolis of Meir in Qusiya, Egypt, equidistant from the cities of Cairo and Aswan, are offering a fuller understanding of the region’s rich multicultural ...

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark vault, in the light of day. A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B.C., ...

The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the ...

After the artifact went missing from Cairo's Egyptian Museum in early September, authorities began carefully tracking down ...