The oldest tailored dress from Egypt dates back more than 5,000 years a Discovered in 1913 in a tomb near Cairo by Sir Flinders Petrie Crafted from flax linen with pleats, V-neckline, and fitted bodic ...

But how did Ramesses II die and what happened following the celebrated pharaoh's death? First, let's start with Ramesses II's ...

This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Ever scrolled through social media and seen someone sprinkling cinnamon at their doorstep, claiming it's a secret to ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists ...

Among the dead, scholars identified no fewer than 11 pharaohs of ancient Egypt’s splendid New Kingdom period, including Seti I, whose body was missing from his magnificent tomb, and Ramses the ...

About 2400 years ago, Hippocrates observed how people with phthisis – the ancient Greek term for the disease – were continually “spitting crude matters”. But he believed phthisis was ...

While the practice of preserving bodies can be traced back thousands of years to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, American embalming developed as a distinct tradition during the 19th century, ...

In late 2024, Egyptian officials announced the discovery of an ancient tomb with 11 sealed coffins, and a trove of jewelry, near Luxor. The site was likely a family tomb, CBS News previously reported.

Three ancient Egyptian tombs from around 3,500 years ago have been unearthed in the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis in the city of Luxor, Egypt. One of the tombs belonged to Amum-em-Ipet from the ...