Explore the mysteries of Karnak Temple in Egypt, where massive granite and travertine blocks show precise cuts, drill holes, and heat-like weathering. Evidence suggests advanced ancient technology or ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

Original photograph of the artefact published in 1927 by Guy Brunton (left) and the actual artefact, photo by Martin Odler Guy Brunton/Martin Odler Production of this article included the use of AI.

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...