Almost 2 years ago, it was confirmed that the cones depicted on the heads of Ancient Egyptian relief scenes were real ...

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The second stage, ink detection, analyses the resulting images to distinguish the ink of the scroll’s text from the papyrus background. This is particularly tricky for the Herculaneum scrolls ...

I lived right down the street, so it’s part of my history. I also have a little Egyptian papyrus painting in my office, but no story. I saw it at a pop-up store selling Egyptian stuff in the ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they have discovered a roughly 2,300-year-old gold ring with a red gemstone that’s remarkably similar to another piece of jewelry found less than a year ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants ...

(CNN) — Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled three new tombs of prominent statesman in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in Luxor, officials said Monday. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to ...

This modern era of high precision stems in part from studies of the oldest light accessible to us—the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The CMB is the big bang’s afterglow from circa 380,000 ...