A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Creation and origins of life according to ancient Egyptian sources 11 -- Magico-religious beliefs in ancient Egypt and the perception of the natural world 13 -- Fauna of the pharaonic period: origins ...

The study describes the contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins that were imaged using neutron tomography. This non-invasive technique creates images of the objects inside the coffins ...

How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus ...

These animals couldn't have an afterlife, in the Egyptian religion, for various reasons. They were an offering, meant to assure various others did.

The Sacred Connection Between Animals and Temples In many ancient cultures, animals were viewed as messengers of the divine ...

A group of researchers have called for tracking the history of the monkeypox virus in the mummies of animals, as more studies are revealing the importance of the relationship between humans and ...

Today a desert—as far as the eye can see. However, anyone looking more closely will discover hundreds of images carved into ...

Ancient carvings in Egypt’s desert reveal how early kings like Scorpion claimed power and shaped the world’s first territorial state.

Interaction between ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations introduced Egyptian elements into Greek mythology.