Skeletons of ancient Egyptian princesses unearthed at Dahshur were found alongside daggers and arrows suggesting these women ...

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 coincidental archaeological discovery has surfaced just as Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reaches theatres. The finding is raising questions about how one of history's greatest literary works was ...

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

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona have identified a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad placed directly on the ...

Egypt’s antiquities authorities have identified two adjacent mummification workshops at Saqqara, the largest such facilities ever recorded at the site, one built to prepare human remains and the other ...

Through many years, the process of mummification in Ancient Egypt remained enigmatic. However, a surprising archaeological discovery showed that it is not only a sacred procedure described in ...

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric ...

Think you’ll forget it? Write it down. Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Re-examination of an Egyptian artifact discovered about 100 years ago led researchers to realize it is an ancient “bow drill.” The copper and leather ...