The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The 3,900-year-old tomb of priestess Idy is revealing new insights into women’s roles in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought ...

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

The Hidden Role of the Milky Way in Ancient Egyptian Mythology Apr. 10, 2024 — Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper ...

A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile ... As a classics scholar who studies both magic and the senses in the ...

Using water, ancient grains and sterilised containers, he cultivated the starter for a week. In order to get as close as possible to what the Egyptians would have recognised as bread, Mr Blackley ...

New research reveals ancient Egyptians may have used advanced water-based technology like hydraulic lifts to construct the Step Pyramid of Djoser. The study suggests that nearby canals powered ...

Ancient finds shape how we view history - and the world. Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History ...

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing ...