New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

Engravings carved into the sandstone near Aswan in Egypt might have been created at the beginning of the First Dynasty and ...

Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of Portsmouth astrophysicist Dr. Or Graur has set both Egyptology and ...

The urge to leave your mark for posterity is nothing new, as ancient Greek graffiti carved into an Egyptian Temple clearly ...

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization.

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex.

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities In January, officials announced the discovery of ancient tombs and burial shafts cut into the rock near the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy, such as the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of Nut.

The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw virtually every aspect of existence, with gods and goddesses representing mundane daily activities all the way up to the cosmos itself. But the sky-goddess Nut ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of Portsmouth Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Dr. Or Graur to uncover what ...