The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The U.S. Supreme Court made a rare overnight ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

According to S. J. Wolfe, author of the 2009 Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts, the khedive had read Why We Laugh, a book by Cox, a polymath who produced tomes ...

They say it opens a window into a period late in ancient Egyptian history when ... of coffins ever unearthed in Egypt. Great collections of mummies and coffins have been found before, but never ...

kept at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and known simply as 2005.335. Although Ancient Egyptians typically removed organs when mummifying humans, crocodiles sacrificed to the crocodile god ...

“People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies ... and the ancient Egyptian god Anubis in animal form. It isn’t just the historical appeal that has officials so enthused ...