Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

In a historic breakthrough, scientists have fully sequenced the DNA of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man—unlocking powerful insights into ancient ancestry, migration, and daily life in early dynastic ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

vi, 158 pages : 25 cmPublication date 1967 Topics Fasts and feasts -- Egyptian religion, Fasts and feasts -- Egyptian religion, Religion, Brauchtum, Fest, Feesten, Egyptische godsdienst, Festivals -- ...

Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The largest collection of Egyptian antiques in North Carolina is in Greensboro this weekend as part of the Cosmic Summit. The conference will bring more than 400 attendees ...

The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

Egyptian pharoah's 3,600 year old tomb discovered“The king’s name was originally recorded in painted scenes on plastered brickwork that decorated the underground entrance to the limestone ...