Sabu and Ptahshepses’s tombs had originally been discovered between 1858 and 1860 by French archaeologist Auguste Mariette, ...

For thousands of years, the statues of ancient Egypt have fascinated people around the world. Their lifelike faces, towering ...

In the 1920s, Egyptologist Flinders Petrie discovered an unsettling number of subsidiary burials surrounding royal tomb complexes, which probably meant there had been human sacrifices.

Pope Leo XIV asked in the Summer that the tears of mothers touch the consciences of those who can silence the weapons, and he did not name any conflict. Quotidiano Nazionale says that he later went up ...

The Czech Embassy in Cairo, in cooperation with the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University and the Czech Centres, organized the Czech Day of ...

For centuries, ground-up mummy was a medical mainstay in Europe – but that was far from the only way that ancient remains were used by the Victorians ...

The newspaper Siasash learns from a trustworthy source that the contents of the third chamber of Tutankh-Amen’s tomb have recently been opened and while they are not so rich and fine as those of the ...

Let yourself be awed ...

It was a news story that went round the world, with museum bosses in Scotland roundly mocked. But now it has emerged that an ancient mummy removed from public view could be returned to Egypt.

Around 5,000 years ago a mysterious ancient Egyptian woman was given a burial worthy of kings. Her tomb was decorated with ...

The ancient heritage craft of caning requires weaving with the glossy, flexible bark or skin of the rattan palm (Calamus ...

From hidden chambers to lost civilizations, the world’s most enigmatic landmarks are still, slowly, revealing their secrets ...