The discovery of Idi will help inform Egyptologists about the manners and customs of family burials during this overshadowed ...

"The arrowheads are a kind of 'smoking gun,'" said lead study author Leif Inselmann, researcher at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies within the Free University of Berlin.

Description of some of the major pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty and ... Among the ruins, they found fragmentary papyrus documents inscribed in a cursive form of ...

Greek authorities say a group of 75 migrants crossing to Europe from North Africa has been rescued from a crippled boat south ...

When I first came across the Egyptian civilisation in the Class 3 history book, I was left wonderstruck. The ancient kingdom ...

The Pok Chun is a nautical embodiment of this turnaround. These ancient paddle boats were once commonly used to transport mangrove logs to a charcoal factory’s kilns. But in 1989, the harvesting ...

A tender aquatic perennial forming a clump of erect stems with rounded umbels to 30cm wide, composed of many slender stalks each bearing a small light brown flower-head ...

A densely tufted, tender perennial sedge to 1.2m tall. Numerous dark green stems each bear a spherical, terminal head of fine, grass-like leaves. From summer to autumn the stems are topped with small ...

Ancient Egyptians Suffered Workplace Injuries Thanks to written evidence in their tombs, researchers identified thirty of the men as scribes. Scribes were trained and highly respected members of ...

The mystery of how the ancient Egyptians built their pyramids has stumped historians for centuries. Different theories emerged over the years, ranging from aliens to internal ramps. Recently a ...

A fondness for cheese dates back thousands of years. Its production was depicted on wall murals in ancient Egyptian tombs in 2000 BC, and traces of the practice in Europe date back almost 7,000 ...

For example, several symbols depict a warrior with features reminiscent of the Sea Peoples as depicted in ancient Egyptian iconography. There is a feathered head, an arrow, a helmet, and a round ...