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.

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

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

Honey found sealed in Egyptian tombs is thousands of years old and still perfectly edible — because honey may be the only ...

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

The earliest notes in Corby’s soundtrack were the skirl of bagpipes, a soulful antidote to the deafening clang of the vast Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks. The unnamed pipers and folk singers of the ...