Archaeologists recently uncovered New Kingdom tombs in Luxor, Egypt, revealing insights into Ancient Egyptian history and the roles of high-ranking officials.

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In 2023 and 2024, internet users shared photos that purportedly showed an ancient Egyptian coffin lid featuring a painting of Marge Simpson, the long-suffering matriarch in FOX animated series ...

How Ancient Egyptian words made their way into English also boggles the mind. The region’s history of conquering civilizations, like Greece (Alexander the Great), Rome ...

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 ‘sacred ...

We journey to the past, where capital cities were flourishing hubs of commerce and culture The pharaonic dynasties held court at Thebes, which was known to ancient Egyptians as ‘Waset’. Image ...

Death. No religion can avoid the subject, but the ancient Egyptians—who thrived between 3100 B.C. and 332 B.C.—built their faith around it. The worldly life, proclaimed the priests, was just a ...

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NEW YORK — For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how ...