"The real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context." ...

Ancient Egypt may have produced more than 70 million mummies, yet relatively few survive today. Kayleigh traces how a ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...

A rare discovery reveals that a fragment of Homer's Iliad was placed on a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy during burial, puzzling archaeologists.

Close your eyes and imagine an ancient warrior. One of the most common thoughts that comes to mind is a broad-shouldered man ...

Long-lost mummies reveal new secrets about ancient Egyptian princesses - New study shows royal women received extensive ...

Under scrutiny, the purportedly 2,500-year-old body raised a lot of eyebrows and even more questions.

Archaeologists have long supposed that weapons buried with various ancient Egyptian princesses were purely ceremonial — but ...

King Tut’s treasures have found a new home at the Grand Egyptian Museum, and elsewhere, Ancient Egypt has been immortalized ...

The lives of princesses in ancient Egypt are often described as luxurious and sheltered, surrounded by servants in sprawling ...

The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were ...