Ancient Egyptians who buried their deceased kin in pots may have chosen the burial vessels as symbols of the womb and rebirth, scientists argue in a new paper.

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed inside a rock-cut tomb. This unusual burial has now yielded a historic ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the potential ancestry of those who belonged to the enduring civilization.

That pot with the diagonal "cut" seems very likely manufactured that way. It seems extremely unlikely that you would get a perfect plane cut like that with a break nor did the Egyptians have ...

At an ancient Egyptian fortress that was part of Egypt’s Ways of Horus military route, the remains of children interred in ceramic jars were unearthed during a series of digs. Initially, the ...

The work helps researchers put ancient Egyptian texts about the embalming process into context, according to Salima Ikram, head of the Egyptology unit at the American University in Cairo, who was ...

The Egyptian Antiquities Mission has been excavating the Saqqara necropolis since 2018. It contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty and pharaohs and the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of ...

In search of key blue ingredient in ancient Egyptian pottery Date: March 19, 2010 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: As one of the "generic geologists" on a dig called the Dakhleh ...

These artefacts, dating to the 26th Dynasty, provide insights into ancient Egyptian religious and artistic practices. Some findings include metal rings and the protective 'wadjet' eye amulet.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time some of the oldest, and most famous, pyramids were built.

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of gods at an ancient Egyptian temple. The artefacts found at the site included beads ...

Ancient Egyptians who buried their deceased kin in pots may have chosen the burial vessels as symbols of the womb and rebirth, scientists argue in a new paper. Pot burials in ancient Egypt have ...