Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

An ancient Egyptian mummy has revealed a terrifying strain of bubonic plague that was present thousands of years before the ...

When people think about Egyptian discoveries, they often conjure images of pharaohs and high-ranking officials, their tombs ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.

Hervé Léger with his version of the bandage dress, which he introduced in the early 1990s.Credit...Neville Marriner/Daily ...

The bandage dress, that item of clothing invented in the mid-1980s that makes the wearer look as if she has been sucked into ...

A deadly fungus behind the so-called curse of Tutankhamun ’s tomb can be harnessed to fight cancer, scientists have ...