Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.

Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating ...

Venom expert, chief palace physician, chief dentist, and director of medicinal plants were also likely on his resume.

Sifting through the sands of the Egyptian desert, archaeologists looked for the telltale signs of ancient ruins. One ancient ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved Sarah Kuta January 8, 2025 2:07 p.m. In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

The team reached their conclusion after examining a mummy housed in Italy’s Museo ... providing molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt,” the team wrote in their ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

THIS is the world’s “best preserved” baby woolly mammoth that has been found in a Siberian crater known as the Mouth of Hell. Nicknamed Yana, the mini mammoth lived more than 50,000 years ...

The mummies date back to the Ptolemaic period ... the beetles that are commonly depicted in Ancient Egyptian antiquities. A beautiful wall painting was also discovered in the burial chamber.