This very early predynastic beaker is a key part of the Bexley Museum Collection. It is over 6,000 years old and from the Naqada I period between 4,000 and 3,600BC. Black topped ware was made in a ...

CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way ... The practice of mummification evolved significantly over time. During the Predynastic period (around 5000 BCE), bodies were preserved ...

"One specialist commented that if it can be proven to date to the period when the Jews were exiled from Egypt, it could be one of the rarest finds of its kind," says Epstein. "Another archaeologist ...