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Egypt and China signed a memorandum of understanding on maritime archaeology at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria ...
It was found at the Illahun archaeological site in the Egyptian city of Faiyum in 1888.  The accessory was donated to Bolton’s first museum, the Chadwick Museum, in 1911, and had been in storage for ...
This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.
The Bolton Museum recently unveiled what experts call the world's best-preserved ancient Egyptian sun hat. It's believed to ...
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 insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...
Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...
A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.
Archaeologists have uncovered a tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian prince concealed behind a massive false granite door in the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo.
Egyptian authorities recently began lifting remnants of a 2,000-year-old submerged city from the seabed of Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria, Ahram Online reports. The endeavor is the first such underwater ...
For the first time in history, the crew behind a groundbreaking archaeological find is all Egyptian.
The wooden coffins are still sealed––a rarity in Egyptian archaeology Ministry of Antiquities-Arab Republic of Egypt The cache of coffins isn’t the only recent find to come out of Luxor.